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Jennifer Lawrence Says Motherhood Shaped Her Role in Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love
She recommends all actors have children.
Last night’s big Cannes premiere was Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman on the verge — and then in the throes — of a nervous breakdown. A new mother isolated in the Montana woods with only her clueless, emotionally detached husband (Robert Pattinson) and grieving mother-in-law (Sissy Spacek) for company, Lawrence’s Grace goes from gallivanting through the fields and having gleeful, animalistic sex on the kitchen floor (a scene Lawrence said Ramsay asked them to shoot on their very first day of filming) to hurling herself through a glass door. “Considering that ego is a big part of an actor’s career, and you’ve been in the spotlight for a long time, how did the birth of the children change your perspective on your career and about what is really important in life?” a reporter asked of the cast.
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