Lily Collins

“Yeah, one of my first auditions actually was for Twilight which is really funny now thinking about it,” Lily Collins told Crave, according to Hollywood Life. “This was many years ago. I was new on the scene, new at auditioning and it was always kind of this, ‘What’s going to happen?’ I think every young actor or actress in Hollywood starts to read some of the same material but I think everything happens for a reason and everyone who gets the roles they get were meant to. I’m a firm believer in that.”

Jennifer Lawrence

“I remember when the movie first came out, seeing Kristen Stewart on the red carpet and getting papped wherever she went,” Jennifer Lawrence told The Guardian in 2012. “I had no idea Twilight would be such a big deal. For me, and assuming for her, it was just another audition. Then it turned into this whole other thing.”

She noted that she was “glad” she didn’t get the role.

Jennifer recently looked back on her audition, saying that she was “immediately” turned down and “didn’t even get a callback.”

Speaking of Jennifer, did you know 9 other stars auditioned to play Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games? Josh Hutcherson faced off with four other actors to become the Boy with the Bread in the franchise, and Liam Hemsworth was against three other actors to play Gale Hawthorne.

We also pulled together a bunch of secrets from the set of Twilight!

Kristen recently looked back on her Twilight experience, explaining how the franchise was so “gay.”