Jennifer Lawrence feels 'noticeable difference' when working with female directors

Bang Showbiz on Nov 7, 2025

Published in Women

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Jennifer Lawrence feels a "noticeable difference" when working with female directors.

Opening up about how the experience compares with male filmmakers, the actress also described women filmmakers as less prone to "over-directing" while speaking during a Q and A with Vulture following a screening of her new film Die My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay.

Jennifer, 35, said: "I have found a commonality in female directors, which is that they do not do this thing, which is over-direct.

"There have been some times when I've worked with male directors where there's this need to constantly feel like they're directing the movie.

"And it's not even really getting anything done. It's just annoying. When I think auteur, my mind kind of goes to controlling and … what's that word? Neurotic!"

She added Lynne Ramsay's style stood in stark contrast to that tendency, saying: "And Lynne was the opposite."

Jennifer added: "She really built this world and made sure that we were all on the same page, through music and conversations and the atmosphere and the set.

"And then she would just kind of slowly walk back. And sometimes, from the discomfort of that, from the lack of her visibility, something interesting would come from it.

"And then she would come out and be like, 'That's great, great, yeah, do it again'.

"Or we would accidentally laugh and be like, 'Oh, sorry.' And she'd be like, 'No, it was great. I liked that you laughed. Do it again'."

Lynne's psychological drama, based on Ariana Harwicz's 2012 novel, also called Die My Love, follows a woman plays by Jennifer who descends into psychosis amid a loveless marriage after the birth of her child.

It also stars Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek and is due for release in cinemas on Friday (07.11.25.)

Jennifer, who has also worked with female directors including Debra Granik (Winter's Bone), Jodie Foster (The Beaver), Susanne Bier (Serena) and Lila Neugebauer (Causeway), added at the Vulture event she recognised a shared approach among women filmmakers.

Lynne said her approach was rooted in wanting her actors to feel free on set.

Also speaking to Vulture, she explained about her process on Die My Love: "I love working with actors. When you really trust each other, something just happens that's magical. So sometimes I'd let the take run long.

"There's a kind of discomfort in that. It's like, 'What the hell did we do now?' But then something happens sometimes. I gave them the space in that house to just explore and go in and out of doors."