Jennifer Lawrence will receive San Sebastian ’s honorary Donostia Award this evening before screening her latest feature Die My Love , and she shared an anecdoate about how she ended up starring in and producing the film this afternoon during a festival presser.

Directed 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’s book and pushed her to star and produce an adaption.

“He had read this book in his book club and said this was a role you should play,” Lawrence said of Scorsese.

The press conference this afternoon was politically fraught with several journalists asking Lawrence about U.S. politics and the violence in Gaza. The festival mode

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