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With X-Men: Apocalypse out this summer, movie-goers are already wondering what they can expect from the latest in the new trilogy. Probably not much, if you ask Jennifer Lawrence, who stars as Mystique, and may be about to (smartly) jump (a sinking) ship.

The actress joined the franchise with X-Men: First Class in 2011, alongside leads Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. But with their three-picture deals set to expire with this summer’s tentpole, after 2014’s Days of Future Past, it’ll take a lot for them to stick with the series.

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“Fassbender and McAvoy and I were all talking. Like, ‘Will you come back?’ ‘I dunno.’ ‘I’ll come back, if you come back.’ Fox should be terrified because the deal we made was like if one of us doesn’t come back, none of us are,” Lawrence said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

The actress is next set to star in Morten Tyldum’s Passengers with Chris Pratt, and as one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood right now, she doesn’t exactly need X-Men to fall back on.

“I would love to come back. I love the fans and I love the character,” she added. “But then you realize how important your year is, like how important three months out of your year is. I don’t know. I shouldn’t be that honest.”

Or maybe she should be, considering that the series’ latest instalment, which added Oscar Isaac and Sophie Turner to its cast, has already earned a strong negative reception from critics.