Hunger Games Star’s X-Rated Blunder at GQ Awards

Joseph Zada was left red-faced this week when he stepped on stage at the in .

The Aussie actor, 25, was named GQ Breakthrough Actor of the Year, and his acceptance speech left attendees giggling and gasping.

Joseph, who is set to star in the next instalment of The Hunger Games franchise, made quite a risqué slip-up when rattling off his list of 'thank-yous.'

'I'd also like to thank my agency RGM, but mainly my agent there, Trent Barker, for helping me make everything happen,' Joseph said at the podium.

He then tried to utter a very common American slang phrase, which has very different connotations Down Under.

'And, for rooting me... rooting for me,' he said as the crowd erupted in giggles. 

Realising his gaffe, Joseph put his hand to his face in embarrassment and uttered a sheepish: 'f***ing hell, yeah.'

It wasn't all awkwardness for the rising star, however, with host Joel Creasey working Joseph into one of his opening monologue gags.

'Joseph is about to forget the little people, that’s us, when he appears in a lead role in the mammoth franchise that is The Hunger Games,' Creasey said.

'Which for any of the Real Housewives of Sydney in the room, is a movie, not a motto.' 

The Invisible Boys star recently received his big acting break when he was cast in the leading role in the upcoming The Hunger Games movie.

Joseph beat out hundreds of fellow actors auditioning for the coveted role in the prequel film Sunrise on the Reaping, set almost 30 years before The Hunger Games trilogy.

He will play a younger version of the iconic character Haymitch Abernathy, who was portrayed by Woody Harrelson from 2012 to 2015.

'After auditioning hundreds of gifted performers from around the world, [Joseph] stood out,' Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-President Erin Westerman said in a statement.