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Jennifer Lawrence opens up about her decision to stop publicly speaking out on the political climate and President Donald Trump
“I don’t really know if I should,” the Oscar winner said during a conversation with The New York Times’ podcast The Interview
The Die My Love star previously spoke out against Trump during the past three presidential elections
Jennifer Lawrence is sharing her stance about speaking out on President Donald Trump’s administration in the current political climate.
Lawrence, 35, spoke with The New York Times for the Nov. 1 episode of The Interview podcast, and explained her apprehension about commenting on Trump during his second term.
“I don’t really know if I should,” Lawrence said when asked if she will be as outspoken as she was during Trump’s first term. “The first Trump administration was so wild, and just how can we let this stand? I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off.”
“But as we’ve learned election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for,” she reflected. “So then what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on something that’s going to add fuel to a fire that’s ripping the country apart. We are so divided.”
Notably, the Oscar winner previously told PEOPLE she was endorsing former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, saying, “Abortion is literally on the ballot.”
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Jennifer Lawrence on October 17, 2025 in London, England.
The Die My Love star also explained that she doesn’t want her political opinions to deter people from watching her films that work to “change consciousness or change the world.”
“I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I’m doing, what I’m showing,” she continued. “If I can’t say something that’s going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature or some sort of solution, I just don’t want to be a part of the problem. I don’t want to make the problem worse.”
While she’s decided to stop talking about Trump on public platforms, Lawrence said that she hopes her work reflects her political stances. She noted that her production company, Excellent Cadaver, has made documentaries covering topics from the Taliban in Afghanistan to the abortion ban in Texas.
“A lot of movies coming out from my production company are expressions of the political landscape, and that’s how I feel like I can be helpful,” she said of her company’s documentaries, Bread and Roses and Zurawski v. Texas.
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Donald Trump in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025.
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Lawrence candidly said she “probably” regrets what she said during Trump’s first term.
She acknowledged that Trump’s second term “feels different.”
“Because he said what he was going to do,” she added. “We knew what he did for four years. He was very clear. And that’s what we chose.”
Before the president’s first term, she told Entertainment Weekly in 2015 that if Trump was elected, it would be “the end of the world.”
Following his first victory, she said her “head exploded.” Adding, “I felt helpless, I felt scared, I felt devastated, and I found the only thing I could actually do is educate myself.”
Years later, in October 2020, Lawrence said on the Absolutely Not podcast that she “grew up Republican” but “changed everything” when “Donald Trump got elected.”
Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, she also urged people to vote, telling PEOPLE, “Take action by voting. The most important thing that we can do right now is just vote.”
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