The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence, who can currently be seen in raunchy R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings, is one of Hollywood's most prolific and in-demand actors, but that wasn't always the case.
While appearing as a guest on the Rewatchables podcast, Lawrence revealed that she auditioned for a role in the first Twilight movie back in 2008 (she doesn't specify which character, but we assume it was Bella Swan), and things didn't exactly go her way!
"I auditioned for Twilight [and] they turned me down immediately," she laughs. "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."
The X-Men star went on to explain that the studio she didn't even let her know which role she was reading for at the time.
"When you audition when you're a run-of-the-mill actor," she added, "you just get five pages and they're like, 'Act monkey'. When it came out, I was like, 'Hot damn'."
Lawrence didn't mind missing out on Twilight, but there is one role she admits to being "devastated" not to have landed.
"The only time I've been truly devastated by losing an audition – because most of the time, you're like, 'Ah, wasn't meant to be, move on, what can you do?' – was in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. That one devastated me."
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