Jennifer Lawrence might have starred in field workplace smashes resembling “The Hunger Games” and the “X-Men” franchise, however she has missed out on at the very least one main film role — and this, she says, is right down to her seems.
The Oscar-winner claims she was not forged in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 interval drama “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” because individuals mentioned she “wasn’t pretty enough.”
On the “Happy Sad Confused with Josh Horowitz” stay podcast, launched Monday, Lawrence mentioned the listing of filmmakers she desires to work with.
“Tarantino’s been chasing you. He wants you,” Horowitz mentioned to Lawrence whereas pointing at her.
“I don’t know about that,” the actress responded.
“That’s true. No, he said that,” Horowitz insisted. “’Hateful Eight.’ The Jennifer Jason Leigh part was originally written for you, I believe.”
“I turned it down, which I should not have done,” Lawrence interjected, earlier than they each laughed.
Tarantino instructed Entertainment Weekly in 2015 that he was a “huge Jennifer Lawrence fan” and had approached her about taking part in the fugitive Daisy Domergue within the 2015 thriller thriller “The Hateful Eight,” however Lawrence was too busy with “all this publicity on the ‘Hunger Games’ movies.”
“And I think ‘Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood,’ too, didn’t he want you?” requested Horowitz.
“Well, he did and then everybody was like, ‘She’s not pretty enough to play Sharon Tate,’ and then they didn’t,” Lawrence mentioned.
After a sympathetic response from the gang, she continued, “I know.”
Unconvinced, Horowitz mentioned, “That’s not true.”
To which Lawrence responded, “I’m pretty sure it is true. Or it’s that thing where I’ve been telling this story this way for so long that I believe it. No, but I — I’m pretty sure that happened — or, he just never was considering me for the part and the internet just, like, went out of their way to call me ugly.”
Margot Robbie was forged to play Sharon Tate within the movie, based mostly on the real-life actress and mannequin who was a sufferer of the 1969 Manson Murders.
Months forward of the film launch, Tate’s sister, Debra, instructed TMZ that she would favor Margot Robbie for the role over Lawrence because of Robbie’s “physical beauty, and the way she even carries herself is similar to that of Sharon,” including that Lawrence is “not pretty enough to play Sharon. That’s a horrible thing to say but, you know, I have my standards.”
Rather than casting her as Sharon Tate, Tarantino mentioned in 2021 on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast that he had “investigated the idea of Jennifer Lawrence playing Squeaky,” a follower of Charles Manson. He added that she went to his home and browse a script however, in the long run, “it didn’t work out, but she’s a very nice person and I respect her as an actress.” The role was performed by Dakota Fanning.
Later on Horowitz’s podcast, Lawrence mentioned, deadpan, that she auditioned for “Twilight” however “didn’t get that ‘cause I guess I was too ugly.”