LOL! What a moment!!
Maggie Gyllenhaal felt “important” when she was “swarmed” by photographers – before realizing they were looking for Tom Cruise.
The ‘Dark Knight’ star and husband Peter Sarsgaard are usually able to walk around New York unnoticed so were amazed when “tons” of paparazzi came into a cafe where they were enjoying coffee, only to then be ignored. She told website E! Online:
“There were a ton of paparazzi in the cafe with their huge cameras and laptops. I was like, ‘Peter, oh my God, they are so into us. They’re swarming us. We are so important.’
“It turns out Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise were living on that street. It was the winter, so the photographers would go into the cafe to download their pictures.”
LOVE it.
Maggie is currently promoting ‘Crazy Heart’, the first movie she worked on after giving birth to daughter Ramona three years ago, and admits she finds it difficult to balance parenthood with her career.
“Every night you can’t put your kid to sleep, that’s pretty intense. In my family, that’s a big kind of get-together time – dinner, bath and stories and then bed.”
“When my daughter was about 15 months, I started to feel like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve just been completely focused on being a mother for a long time. I just got overwhelmed, this feeling of, ‘I’m an actress, too.’
“You can’t be an empty shell and be a good mother, too.”
Do you agree with what Maggie is saying?
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Whenever I see her I think of Donnie Darko, she should do another movie with Jake.
She should be only happy that they weren’t after them. If you’re really in this business to play roles in movies you like, then that should be enough for you.
She looks like a sad turtle.
She’s a fantastic actress. There’s nothing wrong with being a woman apart from motherhood. If you’re not fulfilled in every aspect, you will resent your child. It’s all about finding a healthy balance.
My mother had a full time career and I would NEVER had it any other way. I always felt loved.
In fact, her firm wanted to send her on a six month assignement to Africa, but she chose not to go (due to me being only seven at the time). As I got older, I actually resented that decission. I imagined the stories she could have come back with…
When I see women who live only to breed, I feel sorry for them. My sister in law is a stayathomemom. Her kids spend most of their lives in front of the TV, while she is on the phone talking to her girlfriends about the challenges of motherhood… Pathetic…
It’s also about giving your children an idea of what it is to be a person with interests and goals outside of being a mother. That can only be a good thing if you’re able to find balance.
I think she was kidding with what she said about being important and about the paps, everyone knows she has a lot of disdain for them.
i agree, it’s about finding a good and healthy balance.
haha the paparazzi will always go after tom cruise no matter what other celebrity is there (unless there’s a bigger celebrity).
I agree. I don’t think you should lose yourself just because you’re a mother.