Jennifer Lawrence reflects on a role that she may have been considered for in one of Quentin Tarantino's best movies. The 35-year-old star appeared in Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love last year, which earned her a 2026 Golden Globe nomination for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama. Lawrence is also reportedly returning to the Hunger Games franchise later this year.
In a recent interview with Happy Sad Confused, Lawrence addressed why she didn't end up playing real actress Sharon Tate in Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the role ultimately going to Margot Robbie. "Tarantino's been chasing you. He wants you," Josh Horowitz started by commenting. "Hateful Eight, the Jennifer Jason Leigh part was originally written for you."
Concerning this role, Lawrence bluntly said: "I turned it down. I should not have done." She was then asked: "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood too, didn't he want you?" Lawrence admitted that she may be misremembering, but believes she was up for the role, but a toxic response from the internet worked against her, with many saying she wasn't "pretty enough" to play Tate.
Check out Lawrence's full comments on this below:
He [Tarantino] did [want her for the role], and then everybody was like, "She's not pretty enough to play Sharon Tate." […] 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'm pretty sure that happened. Or he just never was considering me for the part, and the internet went out of their way to call me ugly.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, went on to be nominated for 10 Oscars,
Lawrence was in the middle of a streak of underwhelming movies at the time, her last Oscar nomination (and still her most recent) being for Joy, which came out in 2015. Between then and 2019, she starred in X-Men: Apocalypse, Passengers, Mother Red Sparrow, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Her next movie, 2021's Don't Look Up, was nominated for Best Picture.
Lawrence is now expected to reprise her career-making role of Katniss Everdeen in the capacity of a cameo in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which is primarily a prequel to the main Hunger Games series. She is also set to reunite with DiCaprio (her co-star from Don't Look Up) in Martin Scorsese's ghost horror movie What Happens at Night.
Jennifer Lawrence's chances to work with Quentin Tarantino, however, may be dwindling as the Pulp Fiction filmmaker plans to retire after making his tenth film. If it is correct that the director has been wanting to cast Lawrence for a long time, he may pursue her for a lead role when plans for this next movie solidify, following a previous idea for it being scrapped.
