Jennifer Lawrence blows the lid off secret competition with fellow A-list actress over the ‘one’ role she wanted

Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she had her eye on the role that turned her fellow actress Emma Stone into an international star.

After supporting parts in such hits as Superbad and Zombieland, Stone became a reigning Hollywood leading lady with the 2010 high school comedy Easy A.

Easy A was released the same year Lawrence appeared in her breakthrough film Winter’s Bone, for which she earned her first Oscar nomination.

Two years later, Lawrence joined the Hollywood A-list with her role as Katniss Everdeen in the first movie of the blockbuster The Hunger Games franchise.

Stone, 37, and Lawrence, 35, share a warm longtime friendship – but the latter has now revealed they have also competed with each other professionally.

‘The one that I wanted that she got was Easy A,’ Lawrence said this Tuesday during an onstage interview at New York’s 92NY Kaufmann Concert Hall, via People.

‘I was nuts for Easy A and I really should have gotten it, right? The movie could have turned out great,’ quipped the American Hustle actress.

Easy A was a comic take-off on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, starring Stone as an acerbic high school student who becomes the center of a scandal.

She pretends to go on a date with a college student in order to get out of a camping trip, lies and says she lost her virginity to him – and then winds up being pilloried at school over the sexual encounter she made up.

Easy A emerged as a box office smash and was adored by the critics, earning a massive fan following and catapulting Stone to stardom.

Earlier the day of Lawrence’s new interview, the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced, and she found herself bested by Stone yet again.

Lawrence failed to earn a nod for her role opposite Robert Pattinson in the dark comedy Die My Love, directed by Scots filmmaker Lynn Ramsay.

Meanwhile Stone did snag a nomination for the thriller Bugonia, the latest movie in her long-running collaboration with Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos.

‘We were over in [our friend] group chat, and she got nominated for SAG today, and I did not,’ Lawrence noted onstage at the 92nd Street Y.

‘And I wrote, like: “What?” And all of our friends were like: “Congratulations, Emma!” And then I would just do, like, a sad face,’ Lawrence cheekily shared.

‘And then every time she’s tried to talk today, I’ve just been like: “Why are you talking and not sorry? If you can talk, why are you not so sorry?”‘

Assuring the audience that her exchanges with Stone were merely banter, she clarified: ‘No, she’s been beating me for decades, and it’s an honor.’

Lawrence has been nominated for four Oscars but only one once, for her turn opposite Bradley Cooper in David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook.

Meanwhile Stone has two best actress Oscars to her name, first for the musical La La Land with Ryan Gosling and then for a previous Yorgos Lanthimos film, Poor Thing. 

When Stone won for Poor Thing two years ago, she was glimpsed clutching her trophy while hobnobbing with her gal pal Lawrence in the audience. 

Both Stone and Lawrence have been at the center of a swirl of speculation this year over whether they will earn Oscar nominations for their new movies.

Although she was snubbed at the SAG Awards, Lawrence has earned nods at the Golden Globes, the Gotham Awards and others.

Stone has been showered with nominations for Bugonia, including at the SAG Awards and the Golden Globes, as well as the recently-held Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, where she lost out on the trophy to Jessie Buckley for Hamnet.