When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
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The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.
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