Jennifer Lawrence struggled to separate her character from actual life.
The actress, 34, performs Grace, a mom battling to take care of her sanity whereas coping with psychosis after postpartum melancholy within the upcoming thriller “Die, My Love,” alongside Robert Pattinson, who stars as her husband, Jackson.
Talking in regards to the flick on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant in a press convention, Lawrence opened up in regards to the ups and downs of her personal expertise with motherhood after welcoming her second little one together with her husband, Cooke Maroney, earlier this yr.
The pair can be mother and father 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 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 together with her second child once 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 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 turned a dad after welcoming his first little one with Suki Waterhouse final yr, added that “trying to figure out what your role in the relationship is afterwards is incredibly difficult.”
He additionally shared that his character has the identical concern as everybody 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 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” acquired a nine-minute standing ovation when it premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant on Saturday, reported Deadline.
The psychological thriller relies on a 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz. It additionally stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.
