Jennifer Lawrence remembers being first introduced to husband-to-be Cooke Maroney

Jennifer Lawrenceher husband Cooke Maroney made a big impression on the actress when the two first met in 2018.

In a new interview in The New Yorkerthe Oscar winner, 35, recalled the meeting. She had mentioned to a mutual friend, writer-director Gene Stupnitsky, that she was interested in buying a painting, and he recommended she talk to Maroney, 41, an art dealer in New York.

“I was, like, ‘What’s this name? What should I call him?'” Lawrence told the outlet. When she met him after he invited her to a gallery show, “I was like ‘Whoa,'” she continued.

“I had no idea he was hot or single,” she said of the 6-foot-5 Maroney.

The couple got engaged the following February, PEOPLE confirmed at the time, and they married in Rhode Island at the Belcourt of Newport in October 2019. Guests included Adele, Kris Jenner, Amy Schumer and Robert De Niro.

“I’ll never forget — I was freaked out that the guests were cold, and all my friends were lying. They’re like, ‘Nobody’s cold, nobody’s cold, everything’s fine, everything’s fine,'” she recalled to E! News in 2024,

“My mom said, ‘It’s freezing out there.’ Your grandmother almost died,” she added.

In an interview in 2021 with Vanity Fairshe opened up about married life and how she enjoys spending time with Maroney.

“I really enjoy going to the grocery store with him. I don’t know why but it fills me with so much joy. I think maybe because it’s almost a metaphor for marriage. ‘Okay, we have this list. These are the things we need. Let’s work together and get this done,'” she said.

The couple are parents to son Cy, who was born in 2022, and a second child they welcomed in early 2025. Lawrence has not shared the name or gender of their younger child.

They named their son after artist Cy Twombly, one of Maroney’s favorite painters — and Lawrence shared The New Yorker that she learns more about the art world thanks to her husband.

“I’ve learned a lot by osmosis because, if I ask him about his day, the story is about art,” she said.

In her upcoming film Die my lovebased on the novel by Ariana Harwicz, Lawrence stars opposite Robert Pattinson as a married mother who develops postpartum depression. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and received a nine-minute standing ovation.

Die my love hits theaters Friday, November 14