Why filming in Calgary made Jennifer Lawrence cry

Jennifer Lawrence can be seen discussing her time in Calgary in a YouTube video posted by "Good Hang with Amy Poehler." (YouTube/Spotify)

Jennifer Lawrence says filming in Calgary made her cry.

The Academy Award-winning actress made the comment on the latest episode of Good Hang with Amy Poehler, released on Tuesday.

About halfway through the episode, podcast host Poehler asked Lawrence about the coldest day she’s ever had on set — and the hottest.

Lawrence said Calgary was the coldest.

“I know like the real answer was like one of the Hunger Games movies where I was on a frozen lake — but it was actually in Calgary,” she said.

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Lawrence visited Calgary and the surrounding area in the summer and fall of 2024 to film Die, My Love alongside Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

“It was August, so it was supposed to be warm — so there wasn’t like… there weren’t warming coats or anything — and, you know, I’m just in a T-shirt or whatever, and so that was the coldest,” Lawrence said.

“That like broke my heart and made me want to cry.”

Pohler replied saying the anecdote proves her theory — which she had shared with fellow comedian Martin Short — that it’s “never warm in Canada.”

“It’s always f***ing freezing, and it’s freezing in August, always,” she said. “I know Canadians like to pretend that, ‘Oh, we had a really nice day’ — and it’s like, you did not have a nice day.”

Lawrence says while the cold Calgary weather didn’t make her cry on set, she did cry in her trailer.

“But I was pregnant — I just remembered,” she added. “Of course I cried! I probably cried every day.”

Directed by Lynne Ramsay, Die, My Love is a dark comedy/thriller that tells the story of a mother struggling to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis in a remote rural area.

Lawrence says it was fun to play her character.

As for her hottest day on set, Lawrence says it was while filming the first Hunger Games in North Carolina.

“It was humid,” she said, adding they were dressed in jackets and doing lots of running.