The actor did not want to be part of the Hollywood machinery

Aside from a brief appearance in 2019's X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence hasn't starred in a movie since 2018's Red Sparrow. This is not surprising as he revealed why he decided to take a break during an interview on the Absolutely Not podcast in October 2020. 'I realized I needed to take some time off,' he explained. 'I mean, we all [felt] like, like everybody needed a break and the audience needed a break from me. I needed a break.

Lawrence also talked about how actors get sucked into the Hollywood 'machine' when they take on back-to-back projects after finding massive success. "I realized that, you know, once you get into this machine, it just doesn't stop," she said. 'And, um, you know, it's like the next big movie, you know, do this, do this, do this. And you're like, 'Oh my God. Well well. What, what an incredible opportunity. And you are just a part of this machine.

She continued: 'And then you say, wait a minute. I've lost track of the kind of movies I want to make and why I want to make them. And I felt like my career had taken on a life of its own, a kind of skillful life. And I just had to make some changes and I did.

Jennifer Lawrence took a break to focus on activism

In early 2018, Jennifer Lawrence told Entertainment Tonight she planned to take a year off from acting to focus on activism and work with a nonprofit. 'I'm taking next year off,' she shared while promoting the film. red sparrow. 'I'm going to work with this organization as part of Represent.Us ... trying to get young people politically engaged at the local level.' The actor clarified that the project had nothing to do with politics, since it is an "anti-corruption only" organization that "tries to pass state laws that can help prevent corruption and fix our democracy."

A few months before his interview, he also mentioned on two separate occasions that it was always his intention to live a more humble life. She told Ella in November 2017, 'I want to have a farm. I want to be, like, milking goats. She also announced on the Today show two months earlier: 'I'm taking [a break]. I don't have anything set for two years... I don't know [what I'm going to do]. I don't know, start making pots? I think I'm taking a little break.

She is also married and has many movies in the works

During her break from acting between 2018 and 2019, Jennifer Lawrence met and fell in love with art gallery owner Cooke Maroney, resulting in a whirlwind romance and quick engagement. During a June 2019 interview on the NUDE podcast with Catt Sadler, the actor called his then-fiancé "the best human being I've ever met." She added: 'I just met Cooke and wanted to marry him. We wanted to get married, we wanted to fully commit.

The couple married in late October 2019 and kept a low profile, likely because the coronavirus started soon after.