PHOTOSHOOT + INTERVIEW: Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence for V Magazine (Nov 2025)
5 January 2026
Somehow I did not post this great V Magazine photoshoot by Cass Bird or interview by Mathias Rosenzweig with Rob and JLaw to promote Die, My Love. So here is an extract of mainly Rob’s responses. Click on the hyerplink above to read the full interview:
“MR: Rob, same question for you, either from reading the book or the first time you were reading the script. What were your first thoughts?
JL: I really doubt Rob has read the book.
RP: She says as she’s waking up from a nap and drinking a Celsius!
JL: Have you?
RP: Of course I have!
JL: Oh, I apologize.
RP: It’s incredibly traumatic, the book anyway. I read the script first, and the script was sort of funny. I think from the first draft of the script to the second one as well, I thin it changed a lot, and as we were shooting the movie as well. Her husband in the book, he’s like a kind of device in the book. I mean, he’s just totally and utterly useless. It was kind of nice how the story we’re telling sort of organically evolved into more of a relationship. The first draft of the script, as well, was way more like the book. My character wasn’t around as much.
JL: Well, you did that, though. I feel like even the draft that we ended upworking on, all of that strengthening of the male characters [helped] so that he wasn’t just being galled over by her antics, [and] that was [all] you. MR: There’s definitely a lotless of the Jackson character in the book.
RP: You sort of despise him in the book.
MR: Speaking of despising him, how did you feel about your characters? Robert, do you like Jackson? Jennifer, do you like Grace?
RP: I think it’s a really interesting telling of a love story. I’ve seen it a lot in reality, where you see someone like Jackson, who’s dealing with someone else who’s got incredibly complex mental health issues, and is probably not only a little bit more unstable, but more intelligent and kind of more ambitious, and more everything. You just have a guy who’s sort of unqualified to do it, but it doesn’t affect his love for the person at all. He’s just like, ‘We had a really great relationship. What is happening? Like, why? I don’t understand why I’m suddenly no longer living in a recognizable reality at all.’ His only kind of way to address it is ‘I don’t know, I’ll take you to the hospital.’ I just realized it’s like an actual statement, guys [saying] “Why are you acting crazy?” And girls going, “I’m not acting, I actually am crazy!”
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MR: I imagine as an actor that would be a little bit jarring.
JL: I think Rob cried a little bit.
RP: Having a child at the same time, just before we started, you suddenly feel like, “Well, I have no control over my life anyway.” It’s kind of nice. It’s definitely quite freeing.
MR: You both were recently in the same place as your respective characters, in terms of having very young kids and becoming first-time parents. What conversations around parenthood did this film bring up, either with each other, friends, spouses, or even just internally?
JL: I mean, anybody who has young babies or kids knows that all you talk about is your babies and kids. So that’s all Rob and I talked about, was our kids, and he had a newborn, and was flying back and forth over the weekends to be with them. But personally, I really struggled with, again, my opposite instincts in trying not to compare what I would do to what Grace would do. It’s 100 times harder when you do have your own parenting instincts, you know?
MR: I imagine you can have a lot of sympathy or empathy for Grace, because you understand what she’s going through on some level, that she is a victim of herself and this world. But at the same time, she’s a guidebook of what not to do as a parent. You don’t want Grace babysitting your kids.
JL: You definitely don’t. And I remember there was one really big red flag I put up with Lynne. I was like, “Lynne, nobody would ever get their sleeping baby out of their bed. Like, closing the nursery door when your baby is sleeping is the single greatest part of parenting.” And she was just like, “No, she doesn’t give a shit.” And it was like, “Oh, okay, yeah.”
MR: Rob, what about you? What kind of conversations around parenting were brought up by the book or film?
RP: I mean, this might sound kind of immature—
JL: Oh God.
RP: But, you know, you do worry before you have a child. You’re like, “God, I’m gonna mess it up.” And then you see a film like this and you know that you can be a whole lot worse.
JL: I did also feel like a great parent finishing this movie.
RP: Whenever I see parents who are just totally chill with chaos, like, I cannot deal with that level of chaos, multiple different noise sources, screaming, loud music, smashing things. And some people are just like, totally fine with that. And I literally just start sitting in the corner, weeping.
JL: He cries a lot.
MR: What was it like for you two to work together?
JL: Rob brought so much more dimension to the film as a whole. He really held firm with this kind of backbone for his character, which gave me so much more to push back against. I’ve never worked with an actor who was really in such a similar place as me in our lives, being new parents, which was so lovely, and also built up natural trust, so that when you had to do these crazy, you know, nude, attacking each other like tigers scenes, there was some sort of added level of trust. Rob is sensationally smart and really sweet. So it was fun. I enjoyed working with Rob immensely. Rob?
RP: I really enjoyed Jennifer. It’s weird—we hadn’t really met very many times before we shot this, which is odd considering how many overlaps there are in our lives. But I’d always wanted to work with her. [Before working on the movie], I was literally talking to her about something else, and she just said, “Oh, by the way, do you want to play my husband in this Lynne Ramsay movie?” And I was like, “What? Why?” Because it wasn’t even on my radar. It was such a strange conversation, and I was in a very strange place in my life at the time, thinking, “Why are there no cool jobs?” She’s a phenomenal actor and so much fun to work around. Jennifer, you’re not annoying.
JL: I didn’t find you annoying either. Which is quite extraordinary, to be honest. Hard to find.
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MR: The movie ends differently from the book. Did you find the ending to be hopeful?
P: From Jackson’s perspective, there’s something that’s kind of ambiguous. Something quite romantic to me about someone who, even though they are doomed to keep repeating the same thing, in being doomed, they’re connected to each other eternally, but in trauma.
JL: In hell.
RP: I just love that scene when he tries to fight back and is like, ‘You’re the worst person I’ve ever met!’ And then immediately he changes and is like, ‘I can try harder! I can try harder!’ It’s how you feel in those situations when you’re trying to understand a situation like this within any kind of logical form; it’s just impossible, but your brain still is like, “There has to be some logic somewhere.” And I think that is a version of love as well, even if it might be your own sense of sanity. Maybe it’s just difficult to delineate between the two.”
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