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Jennifer Lawrence reveals how her new role eerily foreshadowed her own postpartum struggles with baby number two

- INTERVIEW: GILL PRINGLE

Jennifer Lawrence has never been one to hide behind the Hollywood facade. Whether she's tripping on the red carpet or cracking a joke mid-interview, the Oscar winner has always seemed refreshingly real. But her new film, Die My Love, takes her to a place she's never gone before – one that's raw, painful and deeply personal.

The movie follows a new mother whose life begins to unravel in the solitude of the countryside. It's a haunting portrait of postpartum depression – and for Jennifer, it hit close to home.

"There was a lot that I identified with in terms of the kind of identity crisis that you have when you first become a mother," she shares when we catch up with her at the San Sebastián Film Festival. "It changes everything. It changes who you are, and it changes your everyday."

Now 35, the actress leads a quieter life than she did in her early 20s, when she became a household name thanks to The Hunger Games. Jennifer and her husband, art-gallery director Cooke Maroney, married in 2019 and have since welcomed two children: Cy, born in February 2022, and baby number two, who arrived earlier this year but whose name and gender have not been revealed.

Jennifer admits that the journey into motherhood has had its heartache. "I was fortunate to have a really great postpartum [experience] with my first," she recalls. "But after giving birth to my second, I did experience really hard postpartum. Watching the movie now, it's bizarre – like seeing everything in retrospect after feeling like I've been through that forest."