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- During a conversation about her new movie Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence revealed that working with Robert Pattinson, someone she didn’t know prior to filming, made sex scenes “easier”
- She also compared acting with Pattison to doing intimate scenes on The Hunger Games with her friend Josh Hutcherson
- The actress went on to note that she often got anxious before starting a new movie
Jennifer Lawrence is getting candid about her anxieties while filmmaking.
During a conversation about her newest film, Die My Love, with Josh Horowitz at 92NY on Wednesday, Jan. 7, the 35-year-old noted that she gets “anxiety” before filming a new movie and prefers to get the more awkward scenes out of the way when working with someone new.
On her latest movie, Lawrence revealed that she shot a “naked sex tiger” scene with her costar Robert Pattinson, 39, on the first day of filming — something which she said was made “easier” by the fact that the two had been strangers at the time.
“It was actually easier that way because Rob and I did not know each other, which is kind of better, you know?,” Lawrence explained.
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“Like in Hunger Games, like me and Josh Hutcherson would have to kiss and that’s like… Imagine it,” she said with a laugh of working with her friend. “You know, it’s weirder and so yeah, doing it with a stranger is preferable.”
She went on to say that she feels like acting can be “very embarrassing” — and especially the “tiger” scenes that Die My Love director Lynne Ramsay had her do, where she and Pattison attacked one another like tigers. However, she was eased into it after taking “interpretive dance lessons” with Pattinson.
“We got to Calgary like three weeks before we started shooting. Rob and I both [are] embarrassed very easily, and that was mortifying. It was, I mean, I’m not…a dancer, Rob’s [the] worst dancer,” she recalled with a laugh.
“And, and it was like, now blow like a tree — like it was just so embarrassing. So I think by the time she was like, ‘Yeah, get naked.’ We were just kind of like, ‘Okay, at least it’s not interpretive dance…’”
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Die My Love follows Grace, a “writer and young mother” who “is slowly slipping into madness” after moving from New York to rural Montana, according to a synopsis. The film follows her as she acts “increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson (played by Pattinson), increasingly worried and helpless.”
This isn’t the first time that Lawrence has opened up about her anxiety. She also revealed to PEOPLE in November that she dealt with “really bad postpartum [anxiety]” after the birth of her second child with husband Cooke Maroney — the pair also share son, Cy, 3.
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Jennifer Lawrence at the ‘Die My Love’ New York Premiere held at AMC Lincoln Square on November 01, 2025.
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She also detailed her feelings and negative thoughts after her younger son’s birth in an interview with The New Yorker in October, recalling moments where she thought she was “doing everything wrong” as a mother.
“I just thought every time he was sleeping, he was dead,” she told the outlet. “I thought he cried because he didn’t like his life, or me, or his family. I thought I was doing everything wrong, and that I would ruin my children.”
The actress said she eventually took Zurzuvae, a recently developed drug to treat postpartum depression, which quickly and significantly helped her with her symptoms.
