Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she is taking a year-long break from acting to focus on helping to “fix our democracy.”
The A-list actress revealed her future plans on Thursday while promoting her new movie Red Sparrow.
“I’m going to take the next year off,” Lawrence told Entertainment Tonight, “I’m going to be working with this organization I’m a part of: Represent.Us. It’s just trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level.”
She claims her activism work will have nothing to do with partisan politics. “It’s just anti-corruption and stuff trying to pass state-by-state laws that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy. And then I don’t know what I’m doing next.”
According to reports, Lawrence got involved in a group whose mission is to bring together “conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful anti-corruption laws that stop political bribery, end secret money, and fix our broken elections.”
Lawrence has never really seen eye-to-eye with President Trump. In 2015, Lawrence said, “If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world,” according to Entertainment Weekly. Recently, she suggested the devastating hurricanes were signs of “Mother Nature’s rage and wrath” at America for electing Donald Trump and not supporting efforts to end climate change.
“You know, you’re watching these hurricanes now, and it’s really hard, especially while promoting this movie, not to feel Mother Nature’s rage and wrath,” she said back in September.
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