Jennifer Lawrence Taking a Year-Long Hiatus From Acting

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Actress Jennifer Lawrence has revealed she will be taking a year-long break from her career to focus on activism.

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In an interview with Entertainment Tonight Lawrence revealed, “I’m going to take the next year off. I’m going to be working with this organization as a part of Represent.Us.”

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The multi-award winning Red Sparrow actress told Entertainment Tonight it’s all part of a plan to get “young people engaged politically on a local level” adding, “it’s just anti-corruption, and stuff trying to pass state by state laws that can help prevent corruption and fix our democracy.”

Unrigged Live! with Jennifer Lawrence, Tig Notaro, Richard Painter, and more: https://t.co/qsL1aJ6FQ3 via @YouTube

— Represent.Us (@RepresentDotUs) February 4, 2018

Lawrence has already started working with the Represent.Us organization and traveled to a high school in Ohio earlier this year to talk to students about political involvement.