Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for Twilight and was rejected "immediately"
When one door closes another one opens, so the saying goes.
Jennifer Lawrence "didn't even get a callback" after her Twilight audition.
On The Rewatchables podcast, the Oscar-winning actress told host Bill Simmons: "I auditioned for Twilight.
“They turned me down immediately. I didn’t even get a callback. But my life would’ve been totally different.
"I got Hunger Games I think, like, a year later. It was probably after Winter’s Bone."
Both the Twilight and Hunger Games franchises were produced by Summit Entertainment.
The Twilight saga launched in 2008 and spanned five movies (or four, had the studio not split the final chapter into two parts) through 2012.
The franchise — which was based on the YA novels by Stephenie Meyer — turned Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner into overnight stars and grossed US$3.3 billion (S$4.45 bil) at the global box-office.
While Lawrence missed out on Twilight, she found fame as Katniss Everdeen in 2012's Hunger Games and its three sequels (or two, had the studio not split the final chapter into two parts).
While Hunger Games changed her life, Lawrence said she still had to "churn out movies between" the instalments so that she was "not only known for this franchise". She would have done the same if she were doing the Twilight movies.
“I was still in a franchise, so I was still trying to counteract the franchise-ness,” Lawrence said. “I’d still be doing that if I was in Twilight."
But she came this close to rejecting Hunger Games because she was concerned about dealing with the level of fandom that Twilight actors had to put up with.
"When I was trying to talk to people about making this decision after [Hunger Games] got offered to me, it was hard to explain to people… this level of fame," Lawrence said.
“I assumed it was going to be the Twilight level of fame and that was never something I had in mind.
"I never wanted to be the most famous person on the planet. That’s a very different life than I pictured for me.”
She added that she "would've been miserable, too" had she made Twilight and had to endure the intense media scrutiny that Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner were faced with.
In April, news circulated that The Twilight Saga is being rebooted as a TV series. As for Hunger Games, a prequel set 64 years before the original quadrilogy, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, starring Viola Davis, Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman and Hunter Schafer will premiere in the US on Nov 17 (Nov 16 in Singapore).
Lawrence's latest, No Hard Feelings, opened in the US last week and will be out in cinemas here on July 27.
— BANG SHOWBIZ
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