Nowadays it seems stupid that you wouldn't cast Jennifer Lawrence if she wanted to be in your blockbuster, but there was a time when she wasn't an instant choice.
Talking on The Howard Stern Show, Lawrence revealed that she auditioned for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and it's the one role she didn't get "that really killed me".
"Like, 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," she reflected.
It didn't stop Lawrence from going to see the movie though and she praised Mia Wasikowska's performance in it, saying: "She was perfect and amazing, and I couldn't have done a British accent."
Still, at least she didn't have to wait too long for her first major role in The Hunger Games, which was released two years after Burton's remake.
Lawrence's big break could have come back in 2008 as she also auditioned for Twilight, even if she "didn't really know what it was".
"When you audition when you're, like, a run of the mill actor... you just get, like, five pages and they're like, 'Act monkey'. When it came out, I was like, 'Hot damn'," she noted.
It's been a busy week for Lawrence as she's currently promoting her new movie Red Sparrow which has seen her get "drunk" in a live TV interview, compare nude scenes to an "actual nightmare" and deny she caused Chris Pratt and Anna Faris's split.
Red Sparrow is in UK cinemas now and US cinemas tomorrow.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
