Maggie Gyllenhaal Says Mothers Try The Best They Can
Maggie Gyllenhaal is starring in the new movie, Away We Go, where she plays a hippie mom obsessed with going back to the basics when raising her children. She really drew upon her real life to help her with the role. Parade recently interviewed her about being a mother. Here are the highlights…
On being a green mother: “Shortly before my daughter was born, I had a fantasy that everything was going to be organic and cloth diapers. I think a lot of people are that way. And then, of course, you actually have a child you have to manage in the real world with all the complications that brings. But the woman I play is really far out when it comes to her ideas of parenting. She’s still nursing her 4-year-old and the whole family sleeps in bed together. I’ve never gone that far.”
On parenting advice: “If I’ve learned anything as a mom with a daughter who’s three, I’ve learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It’s hard to be a mom. I can relate to the anxieties of having other people tell you what to do.”
On the one essential item for a mom: “I had a stroller from the beginning. You can’t function without a stroller in New York. Thank God for my stroller. When my daughter was born, we were sent all sorts of strollers by these stroller companies because that’s one of the perks of being an actor. And so we kind of tried all of them and it was sort of like picking out your first car. We have one that is lightweight and easy to fold. I’m good with a stroller, like those moms who know how to click ‘em and close ‘em just before they jump on the subway.”
On being a mother on and off the set: “I don’t know if I could have done the movie if I wasn’t a mother. I had to comfort a crying 11-month-old baby. If I hadn’t been able to pull it off, we would have wasted a lot of film time. So I thought, ‘Thank God, I know what to do.’ Then I’d go home to my own baby daughter. So I felt like I was just doing non-stop mothering.”
I can’t wait to see her in Away We Go, I’ve heard alot of good things about it.
[Image by WENN.com]
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