Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence announced that her shape-shifting mutant days are over and and she will no longer participate in the X-Men franchise. The world’s last time to witness Lawrence in full blue body makeup as Mystique will be in X-Men: Apocalypse, which is set to hit theaters in 2016.
“It is my last one,” Lawrence admitted in a red carpet interview. Lawrence broke the news while promoting her new film Serena with co-star Bradley Cooper.
She portrayed the shape-shifting blue mutant in the prequel X-Men First Class and in 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Rebecca Romijn previously held the role in X-Men, X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2000, 2003 and 2006.
Lawrence did not provide a particular reason for her departure from the franchise, but she is a busy woman. Along with Mystique, Lawrence is known for her role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series. The fourth film in the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, is currently in post-production and is set to hit theaters in 2015.
She will also star alongside Bradley Cooper–for the third time–as Serena in the drama Serena, which will appear in limited theaters on Mar. 27. According to IMDb, Lawrence will also star as an inventor, entrepreneur and single mother of three beside Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro in the film Joy, which will hit theaters in 2015.
And if this is not enough, she was cast as a lead in another film, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, that will be directed by Steven Spielberg. Lawrence will play Lynsey Addario, a journalist held captive by the Libyan Army in 2011. The film’s release is scheduled for 2017.
Lawrence is also known for her role as Tiffany in 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and for her role as Rosalyn Rosenfield in 2013’s American Hustle. She has been nominated for three Oscars, and she won Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2013 for Silver Linings Playbook.
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