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Jennifer Lawrence struggled to separate her character from real life.
The actress, 34, plays Grace, a mother battling to maintain her sanity while dealing with psychosis after postpartum depression in the upcoming thriller “Die, My Love,” alongside Robert Pattinson, who stars as her husband, Jackson.
Speaking about the flick at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in a press conference, Lawrence opened up about the ups and downs of her own experience with motherhood after welcoming her second child with her husband, Cooke Maroney, earlier this year.
The pair is also parents to their three-year-old son, Cy.
“As a mother, it was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what she would do. And it was just heartbreaking,” Lawrence said of filming the movie, directed by Lynne Ramsay.
“I had just had my firstborn, and there’s not really anything like postpartum. It’s extremely isolating, which is so interesting,” she explained. “When Lynne moves this couple into Montana, she doesn’t have a community. She doesn’t have her people. But the truth is, extreme anxiety and extreme depression is isolating, no matter where you are. You feel like an alien.”
The Oscar winner was five months pregnant with her second baby when they filmed “Die, My Love,” which she believes helped her channel her character.
“Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It’s brutal and incredible,” she said of being a mom of two. “So not only do they go into every decision of if I’m working, where I’m working, when I’m working, they’ve taught me — I mean, I didn’t know that I could feel so much and my job has a lot to do with emotion. It’s almost like feeling a blister or something — like, so sensitive. So they’ve changed my life, obviously, for the best and they’ve changed me creatively. I highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor.”
Pattinson, 39, who became a dad after welcoming his first child with Suki Waterhouse last year, added that “trying to figure out what your role in the relationship is afterwards is incredibly difficult.”
He also shared that his character has the same fear as everyone who enters parenthood.
“Like he’s just a guy. He doesn’t seem to be the guy who is looking at TikTok reels of parenting and stuff,” the actor stated. “He’s just kind of hoping the relationship will go back to what it was and not understanding why this is happening to them, why this intruder has entered this relationship. I guess it’s a fear that everyone has as soon as they have a kid.”
Lawrence later changed the topic when she revealed the hardest day on set was filming a sex scene with Pattinson.
“The day before our first day, Lynne showed Rob and I a scene from ‘If’ and these characters are attacking each other like tigers. And she said, ‘You’ll do it naked, yeah?’ And we’re like ‘Oh, OK,’” Lawrence said. “And that was the first day on set.”
“Die, My Love” received a nine-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, reported Deadline.
The psychological thriller is based on a 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz. It also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.
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