You feel like an alien: Jennifer Lawrence opens up about postpartum at Cannes 2025
During the press conference, the actress also revealed that she filmed ‘Die My Love’ while being five months pregnant with her second child.
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Jennifer Lawrence at the premiere of the film 'Die, My Love' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes (PTI)
Cannes, 18 May
Jennifer Lawrence's starrer 'Die, My Love' premiered at the
ongoing 78th Cannes Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation from
the attendees.
The movie revolves around a new mother descending into madness. At the Cannes
press conference, the actress shared her own experience with motherhood and
postpartum, reported Variety.
"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 as quoted by Variety.
"I had just had my firstborn, and there's not really anything like
postpartum. It's extremely isolating, which is so interesting. 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," said Jennifer Lawrence
as quoted by Variety.
During the press conference, the actress also revealed that she filmed ‘Die My
Love’ while being five months pregnant with her second child.
"Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It's
brutal and incredible," she said of motherhood as quoted by Variety.
She continued, "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."
As per the outlet, the movie 'Die, My Love' is based on author Ariana Harwicz's
2017 novel of the same name, which centres on a new mother who enters psychosis
after developing postpartum depression.
Oscar winner Lawrence stars in Ramsay's film as the mother, with Pattinson
playing her husband.
The couple's marriage is thrown into disarray amid the wife's mental health
struggle.
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