- Jennifer Lawrence isn't taking a break from acting, despite reports.
- Lawrence told "Entertainment Tonight" that she'd be focusing on activism during the next year.
- A representative for the actress told Entertainment Weekly that she'd still be acting as her various projects move forward.
Jennifer Lawrence is not leaving acting for activism.
A representative for the 27-year-old actress told Entertainment Weekly that she will be working as her projects currently in development move forward.
The clarification follows after an interview Lawrence did with "Entertainment Tonight" Thursday in which she said she'd be "taking the next year off."
"I'm going to be working with this organization as a part of Represent.Us ... trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level," the actress said while promoting her latest film "Red Sparrow."
Represent.Us is a non-profit organization aimed at ending corruption.
"It doesn't have anything to do with partisan [politics]," Lawrence said. "It's just anti-corruption and stuff trying to pass state-by-state laws that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy."
The actress is no stranger to activism in Hollywood. She's been a proponent of ending the gender pay gap for years and is a supporter of the Time's Up movement.
But she's also spoken about stepping away from acting before. In a September 2017 interview with "Today," Lawrence said she needed to take a break.
As of now, the actress is slated for two upcoming films.
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