One of the most successful female actors in Hollywood, Jennifer Lawrence married former art dealer Cooke Maroney in 2019. Around the same time, Lawrence took a 2-year-long hiatus from Hollywood and acting which ended with the release of Adam Mckay’s 2021 comedy film Don’t Look Up, in which she played the role of astronomer Kate Dibiasky. Lawrence is one of the youngest to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, which she won for her role in the 2013 release Silver Linings Playbook alongside Bradley Cooper.
At the time of taking the break, Jennifer Lawrence was one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. Despite the success, the period between 2016 and 2019 saw her feature in a plethora of films that did not necessarily perform well.
Then, of course, Jennifer dropped out of Hollywood, resurfacing some time later with a new baby and a fresh perspective on her career.
How Long Was Jennifer Lawrence Away From Hollywood?
After shooting the Dark Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence took a two-year hiatus from acting. Her next movie came out in December 2021 in the form of Don't Look Up. The actress had been engaged to Cooke Maroney since early 2019 and the couple tied the knot in October of the same year.
They celebrated the birth of their first child recently, although Lawrence later claimed that her marriage, at least, had nothing to do with her break. Lawrence is known to keep things "very private" when it comes to her personal life, but she did reveal some details that suggest what she was doing while away from Hollywood.
What Was Jennifer Lawrence Doing While She Wasn't Acting?
Apart from settling down in her married life and taking a break from the paparazzi and the constant attention that she had received for years, Lawrence joked with Stephen Colbert that she was intimate, and often, with her husband during her break. Her uncomfortable admission seemed pretty accurate; her pregnancy was during that Hollywood hiatus.
In a hilariously Jennifer fashion, Lawrence made it clear that she was focused on her marriage and starting a family while she was away from the spotlight.
But after all of that busy time in the bedroom, and with a baby in her arms, did Jennifer second-guess her acting career, or is she coming back stronger than ever?
Did Jennifer Lawrence Quit Acting Because She Had A Baby?
In a nutshell, there is little to suggest that the birth of Jennifer's baby had much to do with her decision to quit acting for a spell.
By early 2018, Jennifer Lawrence was one of the highest-paid actors in the world. She had a plethora of movie offers in the follow-up to her Academy Awards success but does not seem too pleased with the choices that she made. But speaking to Vanity Fair, Lawrence suggested that she was not creating the kind of quality content that she wanted to, and that was one reason for her departure from Hollywood.
"I was not pumping out the quality that I should have. I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right. If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’… I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life. Working made me feel like nobody could be mad at me: ‘Okay, I said yes, we’re doing it. Nobody’s mad.’ And then I felt like I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence. So that kind of shook me out of thinking that work or your career can bring any kind of peace to your soul.”
The actress claimed that her hiatus had left her in good stead and that she planned to create movies that spoke to her, in the future:
“The attention on me was so high and extreme that, in a bizarre way, the set had become a great escape. Everybody treats you normally. It’s not like you walk into hair and makeup and people are like, ‘Oh, my God!’ But you get burnt out. Eventually I had to ask myself, Am I saying yes because I want to go to work the next day? Or am I doing this because I want to make this movie?”
It does seem that Jennifer has turned things around now, and she's choosing projects she truly wants to do — at least, until she perhaps gets busy outside of work again and takes a similar break to expand her family further?
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