Jennifer Lawrence says she only understands the plot of her horror movie 'Mother' because she was 'sleeping with the director'

• Jennifer Lawrence says she only partly understands the plot of her 2017 horror movie, "Mother!"
• Lawrence and the film's director, Darren Aronofsky, started dating while filming together.

Jennifer Lawrence says she only understands the plot of her 2017 horror movie, "Mother!," because she was "sleeping with the director," her ex-boyfriend Darren Aronofsky.

In the psychological-horror movie, Lawrence and the actor Javier Bardem play a couple who are disrupted by unexpected guests. Aronofsky and Lawrence began dating while filming but broke up two months after the movie was released.

During Monday's episode of "Watch What Happens Live," the host Andy Cohen asked the "No Hard Feelings" star how much she understood the movie "on a scale of one to totally confused."

Lawrence replied: "I'm going to be honest. Well, I was sleeping with the director, so I had CliffsNotes. So… five? Or a four. But if anybody needs any tips on understanding their films, you know what to do."

Cohen then asked: "Fuck the director?"

"Yeah," Lawrence responded.

The Oscar-winning actor told Variety during its "Actors on Actors" series in 2017 that she normally didn't like to read reviews of her movies because she could get defensive. However, she had to endure reviews of "Mother!" while dating Aronofsky.

"We'd be on the tour together, I'd come back to the hotel, and the last thing I want to talk about or think about is the movie, and he comes back, and that's all he wants to talk about," she said. "I was doing double duty of trying to be a supportive partner while also being like, 'Can I please, for the love of God, not think about "Mother!" for one second?'"

Lawrence previously opened up about the injuries she sustained on the set of "Mother!"

She told Vogue in a 2017 cover story that she hyperventilated and dislocated a rib while filming the movie.

"I had to go to a darker place than I've ever been in my life… I didn't know if I'd be able to come out OK," Lawrence said. "I ended up getting on oxygen. I have oxygen tubes in my nostrils, and Darren's like, 'It was out of focus; we've got to do it again.' And I was just like, 'Go fuck yourself.'"

However, a year later, Aronofsky said in an interview with "The Economist Asks" podcast that Lawrence injured herself because she "lost control."

"I wasn't pushing Jennifer on that day," the director of "The Whale" said. "I was pulling her back to remember that we were just making a movie."

He continued: "I've never had that situation where an actor was so emotionally overwhelmed by the material that they lost control and hurt themselves."