Welcome to the Cannes Film Festival, where the red carpets are fancy, the ovations are longer than your last situationship, and Jennifer Lawrence is out here dropping truth bombs between glamour shots.
Jennifer Lawrence, our favorite clumsy queen of honesty, showed up at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival serving realness, raw emotion, and just a dash of chaos — as per usual. She’s starring in the new thriller Die, My Love, which sounds like the name of a Taylor Swift revenge album, but is actually a dark film about a mother spiraling into madness. So basically… parenthood!
“It’s Like, Really Hard. Like, ‘I Just Pushed a Human Out of Me’ Hard.”
JLaw, now 34 and deep in her Cool Mom Era, got super real about motherhood at the press conference.
“I had just popped out my first kid and was emotionally wrecked,” she said (not in those exact words, but like, that was the vibe). “Postpartum is basically like being dropped off on Mars, except you’re leaking from various places and expected to keep a tiny human alive. It’s wild.”
She compared herself to her movie character Lynne, who moves to Montana (because of course), loses all sense of community, and promptly starts unraveling like a sweater from Shein. “It’s not the zip code,” JLaw explained, “it’s the crippling anxiety and soul-sucking depression that makes you feel like a total space alien.”
Meanwhile, Robert Pattinson Is Also a Tired Dad Now
Rob Pattinson — yes, Edward Cullen himself — is in the movie too, playing the very confused husband. IRL, he’s also now a dad, and gave major “dad trying to assemble a crib with no instructions” energy during the press conference.
“You don’t really know what you’re doing,” he confessed. “You’re just kind of there, like ‘Do I hold the baby? Do I hold her? Do I hold my own sanity?’”
He said his character doesn’t understand his wife’s breakdown and doesn’t even have the vocabulary to support her — which is exactly what you want to hear from a man holding a baby. Jennifer responded to his whole “fatherhood gives me energy” spiel with the most relatable mom reaction: “You get energy?” (We assume she said this while covered in baby spit-up and caffeine.)
Filming While Five Months Pregnant? Casual.
Jennifer casually dropped that she was five months pregnant with her second kid while filming Die, My Love. Five. Months. Pregnant. While acting out emotional breakdowns and intense scenes — oh, and also while filming some spicy tiger-level naked fight scenes with Rob on day ONE. Yes, you read that right: DAY. ONE.
“Our director showed us a scene of people attacking each other like jungle cats and said, ‘You’ll do it naked, yeah?’” Jennifer said. And Jennifer, being Jennifer, just shrugged and went, “Cool cool cool, nothing says ‘hello coworkers’ like simulated naked rage.”
So, Should You Have Kids If You’re an Actor?
According to JLaw: yes. Apparently having kids makes you a better actor because you now cry at the drop of a Cheerio and feel emotions in 4D. “It’s like discovering a new sense. I feel everything more now — like I have emotions growing out of my skin. Also, my kids basically make all my career decisions now, so shoutout to them!”
Jennifer Lawrence is still that girl — now with more kids, more emotions, and more wildly honest quotes than ever. Robert Pattinson is just trying to keep up. And Die, My Love might just be the most emotionally raw, emotionally naked, and literally naked movie to come out of Cannes this year.
Moral of the story: postpartum is rough, parenting is chaos, and Cannes is not ready for Jennifer’s unfiltered mom energy.
