In an alternate reality, Jennifer Lawrence would have donned the iconic role of Bella Swan alongside Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen in the "Twilight" saga. However, she shared on the "The Rewatchables" podcast in 2023 that the studio promptly rejected her, not even granting her a callback. Fifteen years and two juggernaut franchises later, she's finally sharing the screen with Pattinson in Mubi's latest film, "Die My Love."
"It's the ultimate revenge I've been waiting for," she joked to Variety at the New York premiere of her new film on Saturday night.
"Die My Love," Lynne Ramsay's first feature since 2017's "You Were Never Really Here," is a feverish psychodrama that sees Lawrence as a writer whose mental state unravels amid a volatile marriage and the pressures of motherhood. On screen, Lawrence and Pattinson hurl nonstop insults at each other in loud bursts of verbal warfare, a stark contrast to their quieter working relationship off-screen.
When asked about his first memory of Lawrence, Pattinson recalls his first movie with her being "Winter's Bone," the 2010 drama that catapulted her to fame as a poverty-stricken teenager searching for her father in the Ozarks. "She was like a force on the scene," Pattinson said. "When that movie came out, everyone went to see it, wondering, 'Okay, who is this girl?' It had an elemental power, and you could see it from the second her career started, she was destined for greatness."
"Winter's Bone" not only put 20-year-old Lawrence on the map but also earned her the first of four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She auditioned for "Twilight," and about a year later, she secured the role of Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games" — another YA blockbuster franchise that defined the early 2010s.
"Die My Love" is set to release in theaters on November 7th.
