{"id":162064,"date":"2025-09-26T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:42:11","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-talks-martin-scorsese-u-s-politics-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162064\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Talks Martin Scorsese, U.S. Politics & Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJennifer Lawrence<\/a> will receive San Sebastian<\/a>\u2019s honorary Donostia Award this evening before screening her latest feature Die, My Love, and she shared an anecdote about how she ended up starring in and producing the film this afternoon during a festival presser.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Lynne Ramsay, the film is based on a novel by Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz. Lawrence told journalists in San Sebastian that legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese first handed her Harwicz\u2019s book and pushed her to star and produce an adaption.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe had read this book in his book club and said this was a role you should play,\u201d Lawrence said of Scorsese.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe press conference this afternoon was politically fraught with several journalists asking Lawrence about U.S. politics and the violence in Gaza. The festival moderator initially attempted to shut down all questions about politics, but the journalists inside the room were resolute.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked about Gaza, Lawrence replied: \u201cI\u2019m terrified. It\u2019s mortifying. What\u2019s happening is no less than a genocide and it\u2019s terrible. What makes me so sad is the disrespect in the discourse of American politics right now and how that is going to be normalized to the kids right now. It\u2019s going to be normal to them that politicians lie.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence continued to urge people in the room to \u201cstay focused on who is responsible\u201d rather than directing their ire at artists and actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShe concluded: \u201cWhen you ignore whats happening on one side of the world, it will also soon be on your side, too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere during the session, Lawrence was quizzed about her assessment of U.S. politics and attacks against freedom of speech in the country. He response was resolute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur freedom of speech and expression is under attack and I think the world of cinema and using your voice in artistic ways, having festivals like this where we can learn from each other and realize we are all connected and matter and deserve empathy and freedom are important,\u201d she said<\/p>\n

\n\tDie, My Love follows a mother named Grace (played by Jennifer Lawrence) in rural America, battling psychosis as it takes a toll on her and her husband (played by Robert Pattinson). Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, and LaKeith Stanfield also star.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence told the audience in San Sebastian that she went through \u201creally hard postpartum\u201d after her second child, which influenced her approach to the material. She also described her\u00a0collaboration with Ramsay as instinctual, rather than technical.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been a huge fan of her for so long,\u201d said of Ramsay. \u201cIt was a lot of discussion about the head space. Neither of us are very technical people or artists. It was very conversational and emotionally led.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOut of Cannes, Deadline\u2019s Damon Wise called the film<\/a> a \u201cbrutal but beautiful story of a married woman\u2019s mental disintegration.\u201d He also posited that Lawrence\u2019s performance, which may be a career best, could land her a fifth Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n

\n\tMubi<\/a> snapped Die My Love<\/a> up for $24 million out of this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival. It\u2019s getting a domestic release on November 7, 2025. The film\u2019s screenplay was written by Enda Walsh, Lynne Ramsay, and Alice Birch based on Harwicz\u2019s book. Producers are Andrea Calderwood, Justine Ciarrocchi, Jennifer Lawrence, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill, Martin Scorsese, and Molly Smith.<\/p>\n

\n\tSan Sebastian runs until Sept 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence will receive San Sebastian\u2019s honorary Donostia Award this evening before screening her latest feature Die, My…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,56428,96,56429,73665,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-162064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-die-my-love","tag-entertainment","tag-jennifer-lawrence","tag-san-sebastian","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}