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Philip Oltermann in Cannes

‘Extreme anxiety and extreme depression’: Jennifer Lawrence says she felt ‘like an alien’ as a new mother

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson at the Die My Love press conference in Cannes.
Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson at the Die My Love press conference in Cannes. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA

Jennifer Lawrence has spoken of the “extremely isolating” effect of the postpartum period, while discussing a new film in which she portrays a mother descending into psychosis.

In Scottish art-house director Lynne Ramsay’s moody psychodrama Die, My Love, Lawrence’s character Grace is left alone to look after her newborn in a ramshackle house in the remote woods of Montana while her husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) goes off to work.

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