As a mom, Maggie Gyllenhaal “has something new to say”
Taking some time off from acting to focus all her efforts on daughter Ramona, 21-months, was good for both mother and child, Maggie Gyllenhaal says. Not only did it give the two a chance to bond, it ultimately reignited Maggie’s enthusiasm for her job, the 30-year-old actress says. "I feel like I have something new to say having spent this time with my daughter," Maggie tells Parade, "I’m just looking for the right things to say it in." Her current project — The Dark Knight — hits theaters July 18, and Maggie feels that shooting the film was an ideal arrangement, even though "a big portion" of her mind was "with (Ramona) always." She adds,
My daughter was 7 months old when I started and 14 months old when I finished….It was kind of a great job for a new mother because I’d work a couple of days and then have a week off. I had a lot of time to be with her.
Maggie has also found that her real life experience as a mom gives her unique advantages as an actress. While shooting Farlanders, she had to share a scene with two 11-month-old twins who "never stopped screaming." "If I had not been a mom and known how to calm a baby and known how to talk to a baby and known how to hold a baby," Maggie says, "the whole day of filming would have been wasted."
So I thought, ‘Thank god, I’m a mother.’
Ramona is the first child for Maggie and fiancé Peter Sarsgaard.
Source: Parade; Photo by Bauer Griffin.
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July 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I thought that quote was strange! Below:
“If I had not been a mom and known how to calm a baby and known how to talk to a baby and known how to hold a baby, the whole day of filming would have been wasted”
As I began reading it, I really thought she was going in a different direction with what she was saying…
something maybe from the babies’ perspective-how tough it must have been for them to be screaming for such a long time, how much distress these little ones must have been in. Instead, she concluded with- the whole day would have been wasted. Kind of struck me as cold and Type A- a little uptight! Plus, it’s not only mothers who would be capable of calming a baby- plenty of people have that ability with children who aren’t mothers.
July 13th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Jane, I think she meant that if she didn’t had the calm nature motherhood has given her ever since, she probably wouldn’t have figured out how to calm two children on a film set. And since she pointed out they otherwise would never stopped screaming, the actual filming on that day would not have happened as it would have been very difficult for a director to shoot like this. So I think she just tried to say in a somewhat funny way, that she ’saved’ the (filming) day.
July 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I love the way she dresses her daughter. No haute couture for her….just reasonable, functional and child friendly. And it looks as though Ramona has her mother’s facial expressions down pat! LOL