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‘Extreme anxiety and extreme depression’: Jennifer Lawrence says she felt ‘like an alien’ as a new mother


The actor and co-star Robert Pattinson have each spoken about their experiences of early parenthood ahead of the premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love

Jennifer Lawrence has spoken of the “extremely isolating” effect of the postpartum period, while discussing a new film in which she portrays a mother descending into psychosis. In Scottish art-house director Lynne Ramsay’s moody psychodrama Die, My Love, Lawrence’s character Grace is left alone to look after her newborn in a ramshackle house in the remote woods of Montana while her husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) goes off to work. The Hunger Games star, who gave birth to her first child in 2022 and was five months pregnant with her second when filming began on Die, My Love in 2024, said “there’s not really anything like postpartum … it’s extremely isolating.

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