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Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has been open and honest about her reasons for accepting a role in Crazy Heart.
In a new interview with The Huffington Post she goes one step further, revealing that were she not a real life mom to daughter Ramona, 3, she couldn’t have portrayed Jean Craddock — an Academy Award-nominated performance — with any authenticity.
“I’ve played mothers before I was a mother and, I think, successfully — sometimes anyway,” she muses. “I’ve also played heroin addicts and have not been a heroin addict.” In Crazy Heart, however, Maggie says,
“My state as...
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has been open and honest about her reasons for accepting a role in Crazy Heart.
In a new interview with The Huffington Post she goes one step further, revealing that were she not a real life mom to daughter Ramona, 3, she couldn’t have portrayed Jean Craddock — an Academy Award-nominated performance — with any authenticity.
“I’ve played mothers before I was a mother and, I think, successfully — sometimes anyway,” she muses. “I’ve also played heroin addicts and have not been a heroin addict.” In Crazy Heart, however, Maggie says,
“My state as...
- 3/10/2010
- by Missy
- People - CelebrityBabies
As part of Back Stage's ongoing "An Evening With…" program, Maggie Gyllenhaal spoke to a sold-out house following a screening of "Crazy Heart" on Thursday, Feb. 11 in Los Angeles. The film, which has won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for lead actor Jeff Bridges, recently earned Oscar nominations for both Bridges and Gyllenhaal. The song "The Weary Kind," by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, was also nominated.In the film, Bridges plays Bad Blake, an alcoholic country singer who falls for Gyllenhaal's journalist Jean while on the road. Jean is also the single mother of a 5-year-old son, played by Jack Nation.Gyllenhaal revealed that she first met Bridges at the premiere of her film "Mona Lisa Smile," in 2003. "I went up to him and told him how much I loved his work," she recalled. "And he told me, 'We'll work together someday.'...
- 2/18/2010
- backstage.com
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