Jennifer Lawrence calls Die, My Love a type of revenge after failing to land a number one function in Twilight. The star beforehand revealed that she auditioned for the function of Bella within the hit YA romance adaptation, an element that in the end went to Kristen Stewart.
In an interview with Selection on the Die My Love premiere, Lawrence is requested whether or not lastly attending to work with Robert Pattinson looks like a full-circle second given her Twilight historical past. “Yeah, it’s the overall revenge that I’ve needed,” the star jokes.
Directed by Lynne Ramsay, the psychological dramedy options Lawrence and Pattinson as Grace and Jackson, respectively, a pair who fall right into a shared psychosis after Grace develops post-partum despair. The movie, which premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant earlier this 12 months, marks Ramsay’s follow-up to You Have been By no means Actually Right here (2017).
For Lawrence, Die My Love is a return to the display after No Laborious Emotions (2023) and Causeway (2022). For Pattinson, it follows the disappointing efficiency of Mickey 17 (2025) this previous spring.
Lawrence revealed on The Rewatchables podcast in 2023 that she auditioned for Twilight. “They turned me down instantly,” she recollects. “I didn’t even get a callback.” This ended up being a blessing in disguise, after all, as Lawrence ended up touchdown the function of Katniss Everdeen in The Starvation Video games not lengthy after.
Each Lawrence and Pattinson starred in 4 installments of a serious YA franchise, and each have embraced considerably comparable profession paths within the years since. Each have opted for a mixture of smaller tasks and superhero fare, with Lawrence having performed Mystique in X-Males: Darkish Phoenix (2019) and Pattinson taking up the Caped Crusader in The Batman (2022).
The response to Die My Love has up to now been constructive from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie enjoys an 80% critics rating, with Lawrence’s efficiency singled out as a serious spotlight. No Popcornmeter rating is accessible simply but, however one ought to take form following the movie’s North American theatrical launch on November 7.
In his Die My Love assessment for ScreenRant, Graeme Guttmann awards the movie an eight out of 10. Guttmann praises Lawrence’s “earth-shattering” efficiency and Pattinson’s as co-lead, in addition to the film’s really distinctive tonal stability. He writes:
Grace is the beating coronary heart of this movie, with Lawrence’s flashes of anger and violence balanced by the star’s refined comedic timing in key scenes. It is an uncomfortable snigger – nothing about Die, My Love is really humorous, even when there are scenes that really feel designed to evoke an ironic humorousness.
It stays to be seen how Die My Love will fare with normal audiences, however it evidently marks one other fascinating challenge for Lawrence and for Pattinson. After a close to miss with Twilight 17 years in the past, the essential response suggests the pair’s solely collaboration has been well worth the wait.
- Launch Date
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Might 17, 2025
- Runtime
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118 minutes
- Director
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Lynne Ramsay
- Writers
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Enda Walsh, Lynne Ramsay, Alice Birch
