Though Jennifer Lawrence first proved her acting chops in 2010 Winter's Bone, it was her role as arrow-slinging Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games that really skyrocketed her to fame. She beat out several actresses for the role — including Hailee Steinfeld, Shailene Woodley, and Abigail Breslin, just to name a few — but she almost turned it down out of fear. In fact, it took her three days to say yes after she was offered the part.
"I called my mom and she called me a hypocrite, because when I was doing indie movies and everyone was asking why I didn't do studio movies, I said, 'The size of the movie doesn't matter.' And she said, 'Here's a movie you love and you were thinking of turning it down because of its size,'" Lawerence explained to The Hollywood Reporter in February 2012. "I thought, 'I don't want to miss out because I'm scared. Me being scared, I never want that to stop me from doing something.' But I knew in my heart that I wanted it — it was about working out all the fears." And we're very glad she did!