Elisabeth Shue on choosing the things that will be with her ‘forever’
In a recent interview on the Tavis Smiley Show to promote her new semi-autobiographical film Gracie, actress Elisabeth Shue spoke about making a conscious decision to step away from the film industry for a time in order to dedicate herself more fully to her three children. After having daughter Agnes Charles 11-months-ago, Elisabeth said she "just didn’t care about" Hollywood as much as she used to.
I was about to do a film that was kind of a big film and I thought to myself, I thought okay, at the end of my life I’m going to have videos that are stacked up on a shelf or I’m going to have three children that will be my bed when I die. And that choice was so easy when I thought about each film. It’s an amazing experience, but it ends up just being a video, in the end. So you have to keep choosing things in your life that will be with you forever. Your work is your work.
As much as any one woman can ‘have it all,’ Elisabeth — who graduated in 2000 from Harvard with a degree in Government — feels that she does.
I have an amazing family and I really like my life outside of this business … I have it all, because I have the balance I need for my own life. But I can’t imagine, like, an amazing career where I’m working back to back to back to back. I would suffer. My family would suffer and I wouldn’t be happy.
In addition to Agnes, Elisabeth and her director husband Davis Guggenheim have 10-year-old Miles William and 6-year-old Stella Street.
Source: PBS
May 29th, 2007 at 11:24 am
I cant wait to see this movie. All my SOCCER GIRLS are very excited to go. They have such a great family. I expect nothing less from the Shue’s.