While Jennifer Lawrence has said the process of promoting and releasing a film like Die My Love can be “very violating,” it seems the process of creating such a raw and personal film while pregnant was much less so.
Of intimate scenes with on-screen partner Robert Pattinson, she’s said, “I felt really safe with him. He’s not pervy and he’s very in love with [partner] Suki [Waterhouse]. We mostly were talking about our kids and relationships.”
Lawrence felt a similar comfort working with director Lynne Ramsay.
“I have found a commonality in female directors, which is that they do not do this thing, which is over-direct,” the Oscar winner told Vulture. “There have been some times when I’ve worked with male directors where there’s this need to constantly feel like they’re directing the movie. And it’s not even really getting anything done. It’s just annoying. When I think auteur, my mind kind of goes to controlling and…what’s that word? Neurotic!”
That was not her experience with Die My Love, according to the actress.
“Lynne was the opposite. She really built this world and made sure that we were all on the same page, through music and conversations and the atmosphere and the set. And then she would just kind of slowly walk back. And sometimes, from the discomfort of that, from the lack of her visibility, something interesting would come from it. And then she would come out and be like, ‘That’s great, great. Yeah, do it again.’ Or we would accidentally laugh and be like, ‘Oh, sorry.’ And she’d be like, ‘No, it was great. I liked that you laughed. Do it again.’”
Deadline’s review calls the film “a brutal but beautiful portrait of a woman on the edge.”
Die My Love opened this weekend on 1,983 screens and is looking at a $2.7M 3-day cume. Mubi paid $24M for domestic and multiple foreign rights on the movie.