Jennifer Lawrence Gets Honest About 'Extremely Isolating' Postpartum Experience After Becoming a Mother, Reveals the Hardest Day Filming 'Die, My Love' With Robert Pattinson
Jennifer Lawrence is getting candid about being a mother.
The 34-year-old Hunger Games actress sat down for a press conference at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival ahead of the premiere of her new thriller movie Die, My Love alongside Robert Pattinson.
The film follows a new mother descending into madness, and Jennifer spoke out about her own experience as a mom.
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“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,” she said of filming.
“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.”
The film premiered one day before to a six-minute standing ovation, and is based on Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel of the same name.
Jennifer welcomed Cy, 3, in February 2022, and a second child in April 2025 with husband Cooke Maroney.
She 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 explained, via Variety.
“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.”
Robert, who also just became a parent, added: “trying to figure out what your role in the relationship is afterwards is incredibly difficult,” and said that his character doesn’t “have the vernacular” to be able to support.
“Like he’s just a guy. He doesn’t seem to be the guy who is looking at TikTok reels of parenting and stuff,” he added.
“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.”
Robert also said that having a child gave him “the biggest trove of energy and inspiration after,” to which Jennifer amusingly replied: “You get energy?”
“This question is impossible for a guy to answer correctly,” he said amid laughs. “What Jennifer said, I’m here just to support. Ever since she was born, it’s reinvigorated the way I approach work and you’re a completely different person the next day.”
Jennifer was asked what the hardest day on set was, and she referenced one of the film’s many sex scenes, per Variety.
“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,’” she said.
“And that was the first day on set.”
100+ photos inside from the Die My Love photocall on Sunday (May 18) at Cannes Film Festival…