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The Oscar-winning “Hunger Games” actress is free from her franchise commitments. But after a brief hiatus from acting, what will she do next?
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Lawrence stars in “Causeway,” out now on Apple TV+, an intimate, understated drama in which she plays an injured military engineer who returns home to New Orleans for an uneasy convalescence.
Lawrence has spent more than half her life on TV and movie sets. “Jen’s been doing this since she was a teenager,” “Causeway” director Lila Neugebauer said. “You could blindfold her and she would find her mark.”
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Lawrence doesn’t regret signing on to “The Hunger Games,” which encompassed four films that were released every year from 2012 to 2015. “Those movies were fantastic,” she said. “The only thing that gave me pause was just how famous it would make me.”
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She has spent fall shooting the comedy “No Hard Feelings,” which romantically pairs her with the young actor Andrew Barth Feldman, “and working with a 20-year-old is so depressing,” Lawrence said. “I'm like, ‘Well, when YouTube was first invented, you were born.’”
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