According to his account, his mother hit his sister with her gun and the shots that were intended for him ricochetted off gasoline canisters that were being stored in his room,AZ Centralreported.Newsweek But despite the excitement of getting to look at some brand-new characters (and an incredibly attractive Gale), one person was noticeably absent: Katniss Everdeen. You know, the girl this whole party’s about.Fear no longer, Tributes. Thanks to theHunger Games With his only way out of the projects squashed, Anthony had nowhere else to turn and decided to join the Navy. However, it was a teacher at New Utrecht who refocused his trajectory. “I’m convinced she was an angel sent from above to show me the path I was supposed to take in my life.” That teacher, New Utrecht theater director Sara Steinweiss, saw a spark in the student and recommended he apply for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, otherwise known as AMDA, a theater school located across the East River in Manhattan. “I was like, what? No way. I’ll never get in. I’m not auditioning.”Instagram contentView on Instagram “To be honest with you, I feel like… Well, I don’t know how I feel,” says Anthony while munching on Chinese food while the hustle of midtown Manhattan traffic blares outside. “I know that’s a sucky answer, but I’m just incredibly grateful for this opportunity. The biggest thing I’ve been trying to feel is calm; if I get too caught up with the hype I’ll lose my footing. People ask me, ‘Do you understand what you’re in?’ I’m just trying to keep my feet on the ground because at the end of the day, we’re just real people who just so happened to be chosen for this crazy, beautiful, enormous thing.”Photo: Aaron Vazquez