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I want to disappear in a role.
When I first had Isaac, I only owned a mattress. Now I have a show?
Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.
I was actually really sick of being a broke actress with a toddler, so I wrote a script.
I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.
There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.
I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.
I moved out to L.A. and had my son and was walking around Gelson's, and I was like, 'Am I just one giant, lactating boob? Is that what I've become?'
When my son was small, he just came with me everywhere, whether it was going to yoga class or auditions or sleeping over at friends' houses. We came as a pair.
Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?
There was a feeling I had when I got pregnant and decided to keep the baby, and I knew I wasn't going to be with the baby daddy, and I was really toying with what my identity would be.
We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.