Jennifer Lawrence gets real about motherhood,…
Jennifer Lawrence struggled to separate her character from real life.
The actress, 34, performs Grace, a mom battling to keep 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 convention, Lawrence opened up about the ups and downs of her own expertise with motherhood after welcoming her second baby with her husband, Cooke Maroney, earlier this 12 months.
The pair is also dad and mom to their three-year-old son, Cy.
Jennifer Lawrence performs a mother battling to keep her sanity while dealing with psychosis in the thriller “Die, My Love.” AFP via Getty Images
The actress welcomed her second baby earlier this 12 months. ASPN / BACKGRID
“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 mentioned of filming the film, 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 defined. “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 5 months pregnant with her second child when they filmed “Die, My Love,” which she believes helped her channel her character.
Robert Pattinson stars as her husband in the flick. Getty Images
Jennifer Lawrence spoke about the ups and downs of motherhood. WireImage
“Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It’s brutal and incredible,” she mentioned of being a mother 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 grew to become a dad after welcoming his first baby with Suki Waterhouse final 12 months, 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 identical concern as everybody who enters parenthood.
“Die, My Love” obtained a nine-minute standing ovation at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Getty Images
Jennifer Lawrence also revealed essentially the most awkward day of filming was taking pictures a intercourse scene with Robert Pattinson. Getty Images
“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 acknowledged. “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 modified the subject when she revealed the toughest day on set was filming a intercourse 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 mentioned. “And that was the first day on set.”
“Die, My Love” obtained a nine-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, reported Deadline.
The psychological thriller is predicated on a 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz. It also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.
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