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Jennifer Lawrence recalls 'immediate' rejection from Twilight audition
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27 Jun 2023, 16:13
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Jennifer Lawrence is a household name now, but she has recalled an early rejection of hers that still makes her wince.
The star has gone on to win numerous awards for her acting, however she was originally turned down by Twilight "immediately."
Speaking on The Rewatchables podcast, Jennifer revealed she auditioned for the smash-hit vampire series a year before her big break in The Hunger Games.
She recalled: “I auditioned for Twilight [and] they turned me down immediately. [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.
“When you audition when you’re a run-of-the-mill actor… you just get five pages and they’re like, ‘Act monkey.’ When it came out, I was like, ‘Hot damn.’”
Jennifer is in good company though, as Taylor Swift also wanted a cameo in the series and was rejected.
The directed has since said he regrets rejecting superstar Taylor.
Jennifer also revealed she was pressured to lose weight for her role in The Hunger Games.
She played Katniss Everdeen in the series, and told Viola Davis about the conversations that were had as part of Variety’s Actors On Actors series.
“In Hunger Games, it was an awesome responsibility,” Lawrence said. “Those books were huge, and I knew that the audience was children.“And there were so many different opinions on what is this basically action figure for children going to look like? I remember the biggest conversation, of course, this was pre-MeToo and I’m a woman, so it was weight. How much weight are you going to lose?”
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