Jennifer Lawrence has survived press tours for everything from gigantic franchises (
#TheHungerGames) to Oscar-winning prestige plays (
#SilverLiningsPlaybook), but the demands of talking in-depth about her latest project, Lynne Ramsay’s brutal and elliptical drama “Die My Love,” have already proven uniquely challenging.
The movie, adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s novel of the same name and following a new mother whose mental health starts deteriorating amid their isolated Montana surroundings, features one of Lawrence’s gutsiest, most visceral performances to date. In the year-plus since they shot the film, her relationship to the material has evolved, maintaining an intense immediacy. Having given birth to her first child in 2022, she was pregnant with her second during production, and struggled with postpartum depression while having to look over the film as a producer. “That was a ride,” the 35-year-old says.
The same might just go for the experience of sitting for interviews lik...