Is Jennifer Lawrence really taking a year off from acting?
Jennifer Lawrence is taking a year away from acting to fight for a better America . . . or maybe she’s not.
The “Red Sparrow” star told “Entertainment Tonight” that she’s “taking the next year off” and that she’s “going to be working with this [anti-corruption] organization as a part of Represent.Us . . . trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level.”
She added, “It doesn’t have anything to do with partisan [politics.] It’s just anti-corruption and stuff trying to pass state-by-state laws that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy.”
However, a publicist for America’s highest-paid actress swiftly pointed out that — contrary to what she had said — Lawrence wasn’t exactly taking a year off and would be back to her acting work as soon as one of a number of in-development movies is ready to start shooting. Among those is a biopic about famed Jazz Age socialite Zelda Fitzgerald, directed by Ron Howard.
Lawrence has vowed to take a step back from acting in the past.
After she wrapped the “Hunger Games” series, she swore she would “turn [her] phone off for a year.”
And in September, she told Savannah Guthrie on the “Today” show that she was taking a break and didn’t have a movie scheduled “for two years.”
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