Jennifer Lawrence Recalls Being Turned 'Down Immediately' At Her 'Twilight' Audition
justjared.comEvery Jennifer Lawrence fan knows that before she starred in The Hunger Games, she auditioned for Twilight.
In a recent podcast interview, the 32-year-old actress opened up in more detail about her failed audition for the vampire franchise. Keep reading to find out more… While a guest on The Rewatchables podcast, Jennifer said that she was “turned down immediately” for the movies. “I auditioned for Twilight, [and] they turned me down immediately,” she shared. Jennifer went on, saying that she “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.” She adds that in between filming the Hunger Games movies, she was trying to make more movies that weren’t part of the franchise to “counteract” being known for just that. “[So I was] not only known for this franchise…I was still in a franchise, so I was still trying to counteract the franchise-ness.
I’d still be doing that if I was in Twilight. But I almost didn’t do Hunger Games because Twilight had come out and that fandom had happened.” Jennifer continued, explaining that as she “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.” “I assumed it was going to be the Twilight level of fame and that was never something I had in mind,” she shared. “I never wanted to be the most famous person on the planet.
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