The Twilight Saga may be more profitable than the Hunger Games franchise, but is it cooler? Jennifer Lawrence seems to think so.
The star of the dystopian action film series was recently forced to pit the generation-defining franchises against one another — while hooked up to a lie detector — by Twilight‘s very own Robert Pattinson.
“You famously once auditioned for Twilight?” he asked her, bemused, for a Vanity Fair interview shared Sunday. Lawrence confirmed that she had read for the part of Bella Swan, which ultimately went to Kristen Stewart.
Pattinson followed up with two quick questions — if she wishes she’d booked the part, and if she thinks The Hunger Games is cooler than Twilight — both of which she answered with a resounding, “No.”
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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in ‘Die, My Love’
The polygraph examiner deemed Lawrence’s latter answer “truthful,” prompting both stars to laugh.
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Lawrence’s and Pattinson’s starring roles in their respective franchises utterly transformed their careers. Both had already displayed viable star qualities before landing the leads in the young adult adaptations. In fact, both had previously appeared in other überprofitable franchises — Lawrence as Mystique in X-Men: First Class, released the year before the first Hunger Games film, and Pattinson as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, released three years before Twilight.
But the gravitational forces that The Hunger Games series and The Twilight Saga began to exert on culture after they achieved stupendous success had a profound effect on both their careers. So much so that the pair have been fielding questions about the franchises that are now years and decades in the rear-view mirror, while promoting their first collaboration, the daring postpartum depression thriller Die My Love.
Lawrence even has anxiety that the enduring fandom around both franchises may color viewers’ expectations of Die My Love, the latest provocation from Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay.
“I’m very nervous that people are going to sprint to the theater thinking it’s like Katniss and Edward fanfic, and it’s not,” Lawrence said during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Unlike those blockbuster machines, Ramsay’s film is “a very idiosyncratic, poetic work of art,” Lawrence explained. Which is “great, but if you’re expecting fanfic, you’re going to be really disappointed. I’m just afraid it’s going to come out and everybody’s going to be mad at me.”
The fear of everyone being mad at her is likely a residual effect of her days under Hollywood’s brightest spotlight while portraying the revolutionary Katniss Everdeen. It’s also something she’s been unpacking a decade out from her last Hunger Games appearance. Lawrence recently revealed that during that era, she felt “rejected not for my movies, not for my politics, but for me, for my personality.”
The confrontational aesthetics and morally ambiguous characters in Die My Love signal that wherever Lawrence and Pattinson are going next, it isn’t back to the young adult holding pen.
You can watch Lawrence and Pattinson’s full conversation for Vanity Fair above.
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