After premiering Die My Love at Cannes earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson brought their psychological drama to New York on Saturday — along with their signature teasing of each other.
In the film, the pair star as young couple Grace and Jackson, who move from New York City to Jackson’s hometown in Montana and become parents, as Grace struggles to maintain her sanity after giving birth. The film features some serious fights between the two actors, which Lawrence told The Hollywood Reporter is easy to turn on and off and “sometimes fight scenes, the crazier they get, the funnier they get. So there were even times where we were supposed to be fighting in the movie and you can see us laughing and [director] Lynne [Ramsay] just like kept it. Fighting with somebody who you get along with is fun.”
Lawrence and Pattinson did encounter some differences in their creative collaboration, though, as Lawrence joked how “Rob is really bad at memorizing and I’m really good at memorizing, so our processes were very different. He would labor over trying to memorize something — and he would always show up and do it, I never saw him like flub a line. But he would always be really stressed out that I didn’t know what we were doing and then he’s like, ‘This is gonna take forever,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I have a memory, unlike you.’”
Pattinson, for his part, said that to get into a film like this, “Literally I can’t do anything else — I have to stay home, I have to literally be the most boring person in the world and treat my brain like it’s a fragile endangered species. That’s the only way I can do these things anymore.”
LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek co-star in the project — with Martin Scorsese serving as a producer — as the latter plays Pattinson’s mother. Spacek joked, “He’s such a darling son and he called me Mom, I loved it. He was just great. Both he and Jennifer have these senses of humor so they kept us laughing and crying.”
And as her character plunges deeper into psychosis, Lawrence — who also produced the film — said the role “was really fun. You don’t often get to live intrusive thoughts out loud and so it’s fun to get to play somebody like that, and like what if I go into the bathroom and just destroy everything? It was actually kind of a rush.”
Die My Love hits theaters on Friday.
