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Why Jennifer Lawrence Consciously Decided To Disappear For A Couple Years · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Jennifer Lawrence is back
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Speaker 1: with her new comedy alongside Leonardo DiCaprio called Don't Look Up,
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Speaker 1: which marks her first starring role since twenty nineteen. But
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Speaker 1: it wasn't for lack of opportunities. It was a conscious
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Speaker 1: decision to step away from the spotlight after a string
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Speaker 1: of projects she didn't feel lived up to expectations. She
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Speaker 1: tells Vanity Fair, I was not pumping out the quality
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Speaker 1: that I should have, and I just think everybody had
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Speaker 1: gotten sick of me. I've gotten sick of me. It
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Speaker 1: had just gotten to a point where I felt like
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Speaker 1: I couldn't do anything right. I was people pleasing for
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Speaker 1: the majority of my life, but I reached a point
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Speaker 1: where people weren't pleased just by my existence. So that
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Speaker 1: shook me out of thinking that your career can bring
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Speaker 1: any kind of peace to your soul, and Jen decided
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Speaker 1: to try pleasing herself instead. She spent time with her friends,
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Speaker 1: found love, got married, and is expecting a baby, and
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Speaker 1: it's back working with a new perspective. Don't Look Up
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Speaker 1: hits Netflix December ten. That's Direct from Hollywood