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Jennifer Lawrence said she mislaid her "sense of control" aft her skyrocketing fame came astatine a outgo of her independence.
Jennifer Lawrence Talks Pregnancy & New Film
Jennifer Lawrence may person survived the Hunger Games, but she astir mislaid different benignant of challenge.
Following the occurrence of the franchise successful 2012 and her 2013 Oscar triumph for Best Actress in Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence said she experienced a displacement successful her self-autonomy as her stardom skyrocketed.
"I deliberation I mislaid a consciousness of control," the 32-year-old recalled at the London Film Festival's Screen Talk series, per Variety. "Between The Hunger Games coming retired and winning the Oscar, I became specified a commodity that I felt similar each determination was a big, large radical decision."
Though this play of clip marked a emergence successful her fame, the X-Men actress has trouble looking backmost astatine that portion of her life.
"When I bespeak now," she said, "I can't deliberation of those pursuing years, [because determination was] conscionable a nonaccomplishment of control."
Lawrence is present taking steps to regain the independency she felt she had lost. This includes taking connected projects that are deeper successful meaning, specified arsenic her upcoming psychological play Causeway, which had its premiere astatine the Toronto International Film Festival successful September.
On her caller enactment of work, Lawrence added, "It feels idiosyncratic for maine the archetypal clip successful a agelong time."
Causeway—the communicative of Lynsey, a solider struggling to get reacquainted with beingness pursuing her instrumentality location to New Orleans—in particular, resonated with her. In a September Vogue screen story, the Joy histrion said she felt seen successful Lynsey's inability to instrumentality to her commitments.
Unlike the large enactment movies that she's performed successful the past, Lawrence wanted to dive into a slow-burn drama.
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"I deliberation I was conscionable off-the-bat drawn to the rhythm," she told Vogue. "I similar a fast-paced Marvel movie arsenic overmuch arsenic the adjacent person. But I bash miss the dilatory melody of a character-driven story."
Upon finishing the script, Lawrence knew conscionable what to do.
"I was like, 'We person to marque this. Let's marque it now.'"
Causeway is retired successful theaters Nov. 4.
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