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"My life would’ve been totally different."
While looking back on her career, Jennifer explained that she not only auditioned for Twilight — but she almost didn't accept her role in The Hunger Games because of the vampire franchise.
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"I auditioned for Twilight. They turned me down immediately. I didn’t even get a callback," she said on The Rewatchables podcast.
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She continued, "But my life would’ve been totally different. I got Hunger Games I think, like, a year later."
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And when Jennifer was presented with the opportunity to star in The Hunger Games series, she says she was unsure about the whole thing because of how popular Twilight had gotten.
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"I almost didn't do Hunger Games because Twilight had come out and that fandom had happened," she explained.
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Jennifer continued, "When I was trying to talk to people about making this decision after they offered it to me, I was just like, 'I don't know.' It was so hard to explain to people, like I don't think you understand this level of fame."
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Jennifer went on to say she assumed Hunger Games was "gonna be like the Twilight level of fame," and that wasn't something she wanted.
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"That was just never something I had in mind. I wanted to do indies," she said. "I wanted to do good films, but I didn't want to be the most famous person on the planet."
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"That's a very different life than what I had pictured for myself," she said, adding that she would have been "miserable" if she had gotten cast in Twilight.
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