From here to maternity...

JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND WRITER-DIRECTOR LYNNE RAMSAY TALK TO LYNN RUSK ABOUT PORTRAYING POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS IN THEIR MOVIE DIE, MY LOVE

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RED CARPET: Die, My Love director Lynne (centre) with stars (from left) LaKeith Stanfield, Jennifer, Robert and Sissy Spacek in Cannes

SHE shot to fame in her early 20s with films such as Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games and the X-Men franchise, but there have been no shortage of maternal roles in Jennifer Lawrence's career.

In 2013 crime drama American Hustle, the Kentucky-born actress played the volatile wife of a con man, and in 2015's Joy, she portrayed struggling single mother Joy Mangano, who became a household name as the inventor of the Miracle Mop.

Now 35, the Oscar winner is taking on her first mother role since starting her own family. She has two children with her art gallery director husband, Cooke Maroney.

In Die, My Love, Jennifer and Twilight's Robert Pattinson play Grace and Jackson, a young couple who have recently moved into an old house deep in the countryside.

With dreams of writing The Great American Novel, Grace settles into her new surroundings and the couple soon welcome a baby. But as Jackson becomes increasingly and suspiciously absent, and the pressures of domestic life mount, Grace begins to unravel, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.

Directed by Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and based on Argentinean writer Ariana Harwicz's 2012 novel of the same name, the film explores a woman driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.

The movie also stars Carrie legend Sissy Spacek as Jackson's mother Pam, LaKeith Stanfield as Karl, a motorcyclist who occupies Grace's fantasies and Nick Nolte, as Jackson's deceased father Harry.