Jennifer Lawrence Reveals What Her Die My Love Co-Star Did To Get Under Her Skin

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson just did the kind of press-stop that turns into a great war story: the one where your most temperamental co-star is... a dog. On EW's The Awardist podcast, the Die My Love leads unpacked why a very committed canine and two brand-new humans turned shooting into a circus. It is both very funny and very true to the movie Ramsay made.

The barking was not just a vibe, it was the plot

In Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love, a constantly barking dog is basically a character. That noise needles Lawrence's character and feeds her slow mental spiral. The twist: the dog apparently stayed method, even when cameras stopped rolling.

• The dog barked. A lot. On purpose for the story, and also because dog.
• Two newborns (twins) were on set and refused the usual quick fixes, like hanging in a car seat.
• Script pages were reworked mid-shoot to accommodate the canine situation.
• Long resets meant the dog sat idle for stretches, which only made the barking worse.

"That dog annoyed the s-- out of me," Lawrence said on the podcast.

Pattinson's theory: "I think one of the reasons the dog was barking so much is 'cause it was very upset by how much you were judging it. It was very nervous from day one."

Lawrence: "I'm more of a cat person."

Pattinson still defended the pup as sweet, noting the team kept doing rewrites to fit the dog. Lawrence cut in: "To accommodate the barking."

On the babies: "So we had to recalibrate a lot. Normally, you could just plop a baby in a car seat, and the twins were like, hell no, I hate that thing."

So how did it all play on screen?

Pretty well. Die My Love opened to strong notices and currently sits at 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling out the leads in particular. Which is funny, given that on set, their toughest scene partners were the ones with zero lines.