Mom-of-two Jennifer Lawrence has said she “highly recommends” actors having kids, saying motherhood changed her “creatively.”
Speaking at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival to promote her new film, the 34-year-old actor opened up about how her own experience of motherhood changed how she approached her role as a mom in “Die, My Love.”
“Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It’s brutal and incredible,” Lawrence told attending press at the Palais de Festival on Sunday, multiple outlets reported.
She continued, “I didn’t know that I could feel so much, and my job has a lot to do with emotion. It’s almost like feeling a blister or something — like, so sensitive.”
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“So they’ve changed my life, obviously, for the best, and they’ve changed me creatively. I highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor,” she added.
She said that her two children, whom she shares with her husband Cooke Maroney, “go into every decision of if I’m working, where I’m working, when I’m working.”
Pattinson, Lawrence’s costar, said he felt a similar way after his daughter was born in 2024.
“It’s reinvigorated the way I approach work and you’re a completely different person the next day,” he told the press conference.
Variety reported that Lawrence filmed “Die, My Love,” which premiered at Cannes on Saturday, while five months pregnant with her second child.
The Oscar winner said she related to her character, an aspiring writer who moves to the countryside with her partner, played by Pattinson, and develops postpartum depression after giving birth.
Describing her own postpartum experience as “extremely isolating,” Lawrence said: “As a mother, it was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what she would do. And it was just heartbreaking.”
