Jennifer Lawrence will shine on the big screen again this year, starring in the highly anticipated psychological thriller Die My Love, from director Lynne Ramsay. With this dark comedy, Lawrence is making a welcome return to the kind of complex roles she excels at portraying, having become an A-lister thanks to her turns in Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and Winter’s Bone.
At 35 years old, Lawrence could still give many more career-defining performances. However, the Hunger Games star revealed in a new interview with The Graham Norton Show that she fairly recently considered retiring. Following the end of The Hunger Games and her fourth Oscar nomination for Joy, Lawrence saw a series of flops and ended up taking two years off.
After the 2019 X-Men movie Dark Phoenix, Lawrence’s next film was 2021’s Don’t Look Up. She shared with Norton that she was simply taking a break after major franchises and awards movies occupied her life for so long, and reflected: “I took a little time, I was working all of my twenties, and then I was like… what’s out here? What’s going on?“
“I was at peace with that possibility of that happening,” Lawrence continued, speaking about how taking this break meant she might now have been able to get back into Hollywood. “[Hollywood] is a lot… I think I would have been [okay], but also I would’ve been really upset. I don’t know.“
Ironically, Lawrence’s last movie before Die My Love was 2023’s No Hard Feelings, meaning that we again haven’t seen her for two years. While there are risks to pausing one’s career, it is possible that Lawrence is enough of an enduring household name now that directors will still be interested in working with her, even after a hiatus.
Lawrence stated that she “would’ve been really upset” about leaving acting behind, noting that there were pros and cons to either option happening. However, now she seems to have recommitted herself to acting, with a few more projects coming up after Die My Love, including an untitled project with Amy Schumer and up-and-coming filmmakers Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s The Wives.
But most notably, Lawrence is set to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s next movie, What Happens at Night. The psychological thriller and ghost story follows a couple who travel to a remote, snowy European town to adopt a child, and stay at a mysterious hotel inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters.
Having spent so much of her young life working on The Hunger Games and X-Men, and receiving a streak of Oscar nominations and the attention that comes with that before the age of 30, it makes sense that Jennifer Lawrence considered what stepping out of the limelight would be like. However, she was still passionate about her craft, and ultimately came back to it.
- Birthdate
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August 15, 1990
- Birthplace
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Indian Hills, Kentucky, USA
- Professions
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Actress, Producer
- Height
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5 feet 9 inches