{"id":227858,"date":"2025-10-20T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227858\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:04:09","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-on-two-year-acting-break-i-was-at-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227858\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence on Two-Year Acting Break: I ‘Was at Peace’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJennifer Lawrence<\/a> recently said on \u201cThe Graham Norton Show\u201d<\/a> that she \u201cwas at peace\u201d with not returning to Hollywood during her two-year acting break a few years ago. After scoring her fourth Oscar nomination with 2015\u2019s \u201cJoy,\u201d Lawrence went on to star in a string of consecutive box office failures like \u201cPassengers\u201d (2016), \u201cMother!\u201d (2017), \u201cRed Sparrow\u201d (2018) and the \u201cX-Men\u201d spinoff \u201cDark Phoenix\u201d (2019). She then stopped acting for two years, only returning in late 2021 with Adam McKay\u2019s ensemble comedy \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI took a little time,\u201d Lawrence told Norton. \u201cI was working all of my twenties, and then I was like\u2026 what\u2019s out here? What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked if she was worried that she wouldn\u2019t be able to get back into Hollywood, the Oscar winner responded: \u201cI was at peace with that possibility of that happening. [Hollywood] is a lot\u2026 I think I would have been [okay], but also I would\u2019ve been really upset. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to Vanity Fair<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 ahead of the release of \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up,\u201d Lawrence said that her two-year Hollywood break was needed as she \u201cwas not pumping out the quality that I should have.\u201d She added at the time: \u201cI just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I\u2019d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn\u2019t do anything right. If I walked a red carpet, it was, \u2018Why didn\u2019t she run?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence continued, \u201cI think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life. Working made me feel like nobody could be mad at me: \u2018Okay, I said yes, we\u2019re doing it. Nobody\u2019s mad.\u2019 And then I felt like I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence. So that kind of shook me out of thinking that work or your career can bring any kind of peace to your soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor\u2019s longtime best friend and producing partner, Justine Polsky, summarized Lawrence\u2019s need for an acting break by telling Vanity Fair at the time: \u201cThe protocol of stardom began to kill her creative spirit, to fuck with her compass. So, she vanished, which was probably the most responsible way to protect her gifts. And sanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence is now back in the spotlight as she promotes \u201cDie My Love<\/a>,\u201d her upcoming psychodrama with co-star Robert Pattinson and director Lynne Ramsay. The film, which stars Lawrence as a woman whose life spirals as she balances marriage and motherhood, had its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year. Mubi is releasing \u201cDie My Love\u201d in theaters Nov. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence recently said on \u201cThe Graham Norton Show\u201d that she \u201cwas at peace\u201d with not returning to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,106235,75,106232],"class_list":["post-227858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-die-my-love","tag-entertainment","tag-jennifer-lawrence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}