After making its debut at Cannes earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson brought their intense new psychological drama Die, My Love to New York over the weekend, with the two co-stars continuing their trademark mix of admiration and playful banter.
Directed by Lynne Ramsay and produced by Martin Scorsese, the film follows Grace and Jackson, a young couple who relocate from New York City to rural Montana after the birth of their child. As Grace begins to lose her grip on reality, the story spirals into an emotionally charged exploration of motherhood, isolation, and mental breakdown.
Lawrence, who also produced the film, described the experience of playing Grace as both cathartic and exhilarating. “You don’t often get to live intrusive thoughts out loud,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s fun to play someone who just acts on impulse — like, what if I went into the bathroom and destroyed everything? It was actually kind of a rush.”
Despite the film’s intensity, Lawrence said that filming its many confrontation scenes with Pattinson wasn’t nearly as grim as it looks onscreen. “Sometimes fight scenes, the crazier they get, the funnier they get,” she said. “There were moments where we were supposed to be in the middle of an argument, and you can actually see us laughing—and Lynne just kept it. Fighting with someone you genuinely get along with is fun.”
Pattinson and Lawrence may share an easy rapport, but their acting processes couldn’t be more different. Lawrence quipped that her co-star’s biggest weakness lies in memorising lines. “Rob is really bad at memorising, and I’m really good at it,” she teased. “He’d get so stressed, thinking it would take forever to shoot, and I’d just be like, ‘No, I have a memory — unlike you.’”
Pattinson admitted that preparing for a project as emotionally consuming as Die, My Love demands total focus. “I can’t do anything else,” he said. “I have to stay home and basically be the most boring person in the world. I treat my brain like it’s a fragile endangered species — that’s the only way I can do these films anymore.”
The film releases in theatres this Friday.
