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Postpartum loneliness fuels Jennifer Lawrence's performance in new Cannes film

Jennifer Lawrence draws on her own isolation to play as mother with psychosis

By Web Desk
May 18, 2025
Jennifer Lawrence is now playing Grace in her new film Die, My Love
Jennifer Lawrence is now playing Grace in her new film 'Die, My Love'

Jennifer Lawrence, has revealed how challenging her 'extremely isolating' postpartum period was after giving birth to her first child. 

The Hunger Games star, 34- who welcomed her second baby earlier this year with husband Cooke Maroney, is now playing Grace, a mother struggling with psychosis, in her new film Die, My Love, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. 

While promoting the film, Jennifer shared that she could deeply relate to her character's loneliness in early motherhood. 

She said: 'I mean, obviously, as a mother, it was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what she would do.' 

Reflecting on her own experience, she continued,' 'I had just read my first bay. And there's not really anything lie postpartum. It's extremely isolating, which is so interesting when Lynn( Ramsay) moves this couple into Montana.'

In Die, My Love, Jennifer stars as Grace, whose mental health begins to disturb as her marriage crumbles. Robert Pattinson co stars as Jackson, Grace's husband, witnessing the unraveling of their family life. her husband Jackson.

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