The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 director Francis Lawrence revealed that he will be continuing his collaboration with Jennifer Lawrence with a new film.

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In an interview with MTV at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the director spoke about Jennifer's great career and how he had seen her through her breakthrough as an actress over the course of The Hunger Games movies. He stated that it was a touch challenging for him as well.

"It's hard to see the changes when you're with somebody every day," Francis said. "I think the biggest change is just that around the time we were making 'Catching Fire'... there was kind of another explosion for her."

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Francis went on to discuss how the immense success also had a bit of a downside for Jennifer and made things a bit more difficult to her, particularly with her personal life.

"She was obviously already an important actress, and a very popular actress, and known, but something kind of shifted and exploded in a new way, and I think made life a little tougher for her," Francis said. "I saw that. I saw her sort of close off to the outside world a little bit, in a way that people with that kind of attention sometimes have to do."

The director is developing another project in which Jennifer is set to star -- The Dive, which is based on real life.

"I remember reading a draft of it years ago - a very, very cool story," Francis said. "Great world. Then Jen and I started talking about it, so we're trying to figure it out.... it's a tricky story. The character she would play - it's tricky to make that story and that ending work in a satisfying way."

Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 will hit theaters on Nov. 18. 

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