While Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson starring in a movie together feels like something out of my horny teen fantasies, the truth is their upcoming film is lowkey a nightmare. Like, the good kind. The kind that wins awards.
ICYMI: The iconic duo is starring in a French-language adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s absolutely unhinged (in a good way) novel Die, My Love. The story dives into motherhood, madness, and losing your grip on reality in the French countryside. Think: postpartum rage, existential spirals, total isolation, and wondering if you’ve ruined your life by having kids. You know. Casual stuff. (And, yes, the book totally deserves a spot on your TBR list.)
The on-screen adaptation premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2025, and immediately sparked a bidding war because, duh. Two of the biggest millennial stars tackling something on most millennials’ minds (parenthood)? It sells itself.
And while the movie’s take on motherhood might be a fever dream wrapped in a breakdown, when JLaw was asked how becoming a mom has changed her? She didn’t go the polished PR route (even though her answer was, ofc, perfect). Instead, the mother of two gave a refreshingly unfiltered answer about how parenthood has wrecked, reshaped, and maybe even refined her, in that chaotic, relatable way only she can. Honestly, you can take the millennial out of The Hunger Games, but we’ll forever stan (do the kids still say stan???).
Jennifer Lawrence on Motherhood at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
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Die, My Love is a raw, psychological drama based on the novel by Ariana Harwicz that unpacks postpartum depression, identity loss, and full-blown psychosis. Lawrence plays a woman unraveling in a remote Montana town — isolated, overwhelmed, and questioning everything from her sanity to her sense of self, while the line between reality and delusion gets blurrier by the day.
“There’s not really anything like postpartum. It’s extremely isolating,” Lawrence said during the Cannes press conference. “[My character] 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. And so it deeply moved me. Yes, a part of what [my character is] going through is the hormonal imbalance that comes with postpartum. But she’s also having an identity crisis. ‘Who am I as a mother? Who am I as a wife? Who am I as a sexual person to my husband? Who am I as a creative?’ And I think she’s plagued with this feeling that she’s disappearing.”
When asked how motherhood has impacted her work, Lawrence didn’t sugarcoat it: “Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It’s brutal. And incredible.”
She went on to explain that parenting doesn’t just influence her day-to-day — it’s completely restructured her creative process: “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 didn’t know I could feel so much. My job has a lot to do with emotion. And they’ve opened up the world to me. It’s almost like feeling a blister or something so sensitive. 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.”
In conclusion: Go on, just give her the Oscar already. Oh, and maybe a nap?
