“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.''
The Twilight Saga, which started in 2008, would released five movies. Summit Entertainment was the studio to sprung the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling books. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
Jennifer Lawrence eventually got the lead role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games franchise. The franchise, launched by Liongates, started in 2012 and spanned four films.
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Lawrence said she had to “churn out movies in between” her “Hunger Games” films so that she was “not only known for this franchise,” which is something she’d still have to do if she booked “Twilight” instead.
“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.”
“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. 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.”
Lawrence concluded that she would've been miserable if she starred in Twilight and had to deal with the media attention Stewart, Pattinson and Lautner faced.
As Lionsgate is continuing “The Hunger Games” franchise later this year with the prequel movie “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Lawrence recently told Variety that she would be open to reprising Katniss should the franchise continue.
Source: Variety