00:00This movie also reflects on what it means to be a good mother.
00:06In your point of view, are we finally learning to accept imperfect, angry, and fragile mothers nowadays?
00:16No, I don't really think so.
00:18I think that we, I don't know if we will accept imperfect mothers until we really accept how impossible the ask is, you know, like we need to produce humans and raise them, but we also need to work and be breadwinners.
00:40And we also need to be demure housekeepers. And it's just kind of this, it's an impossible, it's impossible. And so I don't, I think that as long as we have this unrealistic expectation, then there's, along with that is going to be an unrealistic expectation for how we're supposed to do it and how, when the attitude we're supposed to have when we do it.
01:08You were pregnant during the shooting of the movie. Did playing a woman struggling with depression make you feel bad about your own motherhood?
01:20No, I was, I was, I was, I was really lucky the way that this, these lined up because I actually had a really pleasant postpartum with my first, but what I did immediately recognize was how violent the world feels after you've
01:45because you've had a baby because you're, you're, you have to go back to work, which pulls you away from this baby. We also live in a scary world and all of it just seems so overwhelming and so violent.
01:57And I really, I definitely identified with that, but I think because I didn't have a terrible postpartum where I didn't connect with my baby, it was, it was easier for me to kind of go there because it wasn't something I was like afraid of and felt like I had to avoid.
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