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Jennifer Lawrence Says She Was 'Too Young' for Sudden Fame, Channels Motherhood in Ramsay's The My Love

Her Bunte interview positions the drama’s portrayal of postnatal depression as grounded in lived parenting experience.

Overview

  • In a Bunte interview reported by dpa, the 35-year-old recalls being 20 and unprepared for early acclaim.
  • She describes feeling out of place during her first awards season, saying she sat in unfamiliar dresses and thought, “don’t listen to me.”
  • Lawrence underscores the “grey” realities of life by discussing challenges in motherhood and marriage and rejecting ideals of perfection.
  • She stars as Grace in Lynne Ramsay’s The My Love, opposite Robert Pattinson as Jackson, with the story centering on postnatal depression after a move to Montana.
  • She says aspects of filming felt liberating, citing “tearing apart a bathroom,” and notes that parenting two children informed her approach to steadiness and the child’s perspective.