Balancing work and family life is tough, says actress Emily Blunt. The Brit has announced she is taking a gap year to “be there” for her daughters. The last few years of projects have been “intense” and Blunt admits she misses following the daily lives of the two girls.
This was announced by the actress herself on the podcast. table for two, earlier this week. Emily Blunt is married to actor John Krasinski, with whom she has two daughters. When asked how she manages to combine her career with motherhood, the actress answered honestly: “I don’t always succeed. It’s one of those things where people say ‘How do you balance that?’ I feel like I’m never good enough, But this year I will not work.
Since the birth of the couple’s two daughters, Hazel and Violet, who are aged 9 and 7 respectively, the actress has starred in several films, including the major a quiet place and new version of mary poppins, Next week, the play premieres oppenheimerWhere she played the wife of American physicist Robert Oppenheimer.
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She’s “done a lot of work” over the past year, feeling she missed out on “noteworthy” moments from Girls Days. “It’s ‘are you going to wake me up?’, ‘are you going to take me to school?’, ‘are you going to pick me up?’, ‘are you going to put me to bed?’. There’s a need for everyone to exist”, she defended, admitting that motherhood isn’t easy and that it feels “down to the bones”.
She claims that being a mother comes with guilt. “God forbid we want to be more than a mother,” she says, highlighting the patriarchal society’s beliefs. But he defends: “We want my daughters to grow up and find something they love to do.”
In the interview, Emily Blunt also revealed that the family recently adopted a puppy who also needs a lot of attention in the morning. “I didn’t want a dog, but the kids were putting pressure on me and John was willing to do the same,” he says.
Blunt is not the first actress to announce a career break. Last year, Sandra Bullock also decided to take time off from acting to be with her family. The American is the mother of two children, Louis and Layla, who were adopted in 2010 and 2015.
Already Australian actor Chris Hemsworth had decided to take a break after discovering he had a genetic predisposition to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
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