Cannes 2025: Jennifer Lawrence “deeply moved” after working on ‘Die, My Love’
Speaking at the 2025 Cannes International Film Festival, actor Jennifer Lawrence opened up about her experience working on her upcoming movie, Die, My Love.
The film, and Lynne Ramsay’s fifth feature, is an adaptation of the 2017 novel of the same name by Ariana Harwicz about a new mother who develops postpartum depression and enters psychosis. Lawrence is also a producer of the movie.
The Hunger Games actor ruminated on what it is like to play a mother, having a recent child of her own. She began, “Obviously as a mother it was really hard to kind of separate what I would do as opposed to what she would do.”
She continued at the conference attended by Far Out: “I had just had my firstborn. There’s not really anything like postpartum. It’s extremely isolating, which is so interesting when Lynne moves this couple to Montana. Extreme anxiety and depression are isolating, no matter what.”
Lawrence then expressed incredulousness at her project involvement: “It deeply moved me. I’ve wanted to work with Ramsay since I saw Ratcatcher, but I thought, ‘There’s no way‘. But we took a chance and sent it to her, and I cannot believe I’m here with you and that this has happened.”
In 2019, Lawrence took a calculated step away from Hollywood, after she was steered towards big-budget movies, rather than smaller projects she had first found mesmerising. At that time, she said, “I felt like it was important for everybody. They needed a break from me; I needed a break from them… I was like, ‘I get it, I hear you, and I understand it. I’m sick of me, too’.”
Mickey 17 actor Robert Pattinson plays the other half of her couple in Die, My Love. At the same event, Pattinson ruminated on his character, stating: “I guess it’s an interesting character because normally I’m attracted to characters who are sort of incredibly abrasive and quite obscure. I think Jackson was way more of a normal guy than I’ve played before.”
A release date for Die, My Love has not been officially finalised, though IMDb suggests it could be as soon as June 6th in Europe.
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