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Show business friendships tend to be fleeting ones: Thrown together on location, working intense 12-hour days, actors can connect deeply, and then, poof — their work done, they’re on to the next project, the friendship a fond but hazy memory.

Not so with Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The stars met five years ago, on location for Stranger Than Fiction, the quirky romantic comedy they starred in with Will Ferrell, and they have been friends ever since. In the past few years, both have pursued remarkable careers — Thompson reprising her role as Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter series, among other roles; Gyllenhaal earning an Oscar nomination for Crazy Heart — while nurturing their equally involving personal lives. Both are married to actors and pride themselves on being very hands-on parents.

Their most recent collaboration is Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang, opening this month, which Emma — who won an Oscar for her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility — wrote, produced, and costars in. (It’s a sequel to her 2005 hit Nanny McPhee, about a remarkably homely, formidable but kind caregiver.) Emma admits that she had her pal Maggie firmly in mind while writing the script.

We sat down with the pair recently and listened in as they shared some surprising ideas about marriage, mommyhood, and work — and where exactly a woman’s priorities really lie.

GH: Emma, what was your first impression of Maggie? Did you sense that you might become friends?

Emma: I just thought, “What an interesting person; I can’t wait to have a proper conversation.”

Maggie: And we did really quickly have a proper conversation. We had a couple of teas and lunches. And then a couple of years later, we were in London again, when Peter [Sarsgaard, her husband] was working, and Ramona [their daughter, age 3 1/2] and I were just hanging out together. It was a rainy, cold March, and Emma invited us over for lunch.

Emma: I understand what it’s like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People…say, “She’s got her daughter; she’s got her husband.” Yeah, but she hasn’t got anyone else.

Maggie: Do you remember? Ramona was all dressed—

Emma: The entire child looked like she had been knitted by hand.

Maggie: Not by me! [They both laugh.]

GH: What did you talk about when you were getting to know each other?

Maggie: We talked about kind of everything. We got down to the bone — we really did make friends that way.

Emma: You were a young, young mum. And I remember saying to you, “It’s really hard, and don’t let anyone tell you that it isn’t.”

GH: Show business friendships are often pretty brief. But you’re real friends, and I assume that’s because you really do admire each other. Emma, what’s the quality you most admire in Maggie?

Emma: Not being all about how she looks. A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they’re thinking about is how they look. Maggie’s not trammeled with all of that. She’s very beautiful, but there’s nothing spoiled about her.

GH: How about you, Maggie? You’ve said that you want to be Emma when you grow up.

Maggie: What I meant was that Emma is a grown-up. I’m 32, and I’m realizing how much of me is not a grown-up…. And I don’t say that because she is perfectly organized and makes everything function perfectly, but because of a much deeper sense she has of herself in the world. And I admire that and I hope to be like that.

Emma: I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It’s due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time — about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. And not being as involved in yourself as you were…. I’m 51, so I have a very, very different perspective.

I certainly wasn’t grown up at 32. One is a child when one has a child. No one says, “You will never be the same again.” Which is the truth! And we’re all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about? Why have we lost contact with the possibility of saying, “Do you know what? I can’t do that. Sorry, I can’t manage that as well.”

Maggie: Emma gave me the best piece of advice, and I’m happy to share it. I had one day on the set [of Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang] when I was overwhelmed. I was a newlywed, I had a 2-year-old…I had quite a long scene with five children and animals, and I remember cracking a little bit. You’re not allowed to fall completely apart when you’re carrying a movie; you’re a professional — but I did one day, just a little bit. Nobody knew but Emma, and she said, “Mags, you have got to allow yourself to drop the ball, because nobody can keep all those balls in the air.”

Emma: I don’t want your readers ever to think they have to have it all. I think that’s a revolting concept. It’s so false! Sometimes you’ll have some things, and sometimes you’ll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it’s not good for you. You can’t be a great mom and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren’t ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn’t working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women….

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people — which I don’t ever want to do, nor does Mags. So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it’s profoundly enjoyable.

Maggie: I do care about my home feeling warm and clean and loving and welcoming, and that takes a lot of work. I mean, I had no idea how much work that takes. I am just getting above water on that.

When I was pregnant, we bought a four-story brownstone — we’d been living in this little apartment. I didn’t know what I was taking on; I didn’t know how to manage it at all. I got this book called Home Comforts, about the basics of housekeeping and homemaking. And I am fascinated by it. How there’s a marketing day — or a day when you do the big shop — and another when you do a little shop. And organizing all the meals for the week. And truly how if you’re organized, how different your life is.

I’m not naturally organized, but I’m getting there. Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don’t work. [Laughs.] That’s the stage I’m in now: “I set up all the systems! Why isn’t this working?” And then you have to change them.

GH: Emma, what’s your approach to housekeeping?

Emma: We all do the washing up and the clearing up and the cooking — that’s all part of life, and that’s a pleasure. And I do love folding the wash and putting it away. I do the housekeeping in Scotland [where she has a country house] — but it’s very rustic. I have the smallest kitchen, and I have to keep it very, very clean.

Maggie: I was just teaching Ramona her first chore. It’s just carrying her little plate to the trash, scraping off the food, and putting it into the dishwasher.

Emma: Lovely.

Maggie: You know what I told her? I said, “When you go to other people’s houses, you’ll start to put your dish in the dishwasher and they’ll say, ‘Oh, no no no, don’t do that.’ Do it anyway.” We went to dinner at these other people’s house, and we started to put our dishes in the dishwasher, and they said that, and she said, “MAAAAAA!” I said, “See? People always say that. It doesn’t mean they don’t want you to put it in the dishwasher.”

GH: What are the parenting rules you really won’t budge on?

Emma: Only fight the really important battles. Sometimes be a bit naughty and anarchic. Surprise them. Stress the value and bliss of sleep.

Maggie: We don’t hit; I say, “In our family, we don’t hit.” But Ramona isn’t a challenge that way. She’s always been really verbal and able to express herself well, and we’re pretty verbal too, so we can have conversations.

GH: Neither of you has a regular nanny, and both of you spend a lot of time with your daughters. What have you been up to with your girls lately?

Emma: We have “hair salon” once a week in our bathroom. And I go in to my daughter’s school; I’ve done two productions with her. One year, they wanted to do the history of the world, which turned out to start with Slime — it was a musical, that was the first number — then went to Cavemen; then after that it went straight to the Plague, an interesting thing. Then Victorians, then Global Warming and Drowning, and then Aliens. And then the Aliens turning back into Slime. It was very good, lots of very good lyrics. I really did love doing it.

GH: Maggie, what do you like doing with Ramona? Any favorite games?

Maggie: I am playful, although I don’t believe it’s the mother’s job to be constantly entertaining her child. There’s something nice about just coexisting — just to be with her, take her on errands.

We get our nails done at the nail place on the corner, and that’s nice. I didn’t do that kind of thing much with my mother; she didn’t wear makeup or high heels; she didn’t, you know, moisturize. My mother [Naomi Foner, a producer and an award-winning screenwriter] was interested in political things. The joy of femininity wasn’t something she stressed. But all those feminine things can be wonderful, and I have really enjoyed finding all that stuff on my own. It’s nice to watch your mother sitting at a vanity. I do that. I almost never wear makeup, but sometimes when I’m going out I’ll do more, and my daughter loves watching.

GH: Now, how do you and your husbands, who are also actors, divide up child-care responsibilities?

Emma: Well, we’re mostly around, so it’s either me or Greg [Wise, her husband] who picks up Gaia [their daughter, age 10] from school. And we take turns working.

Maggie: In our case, it has to be me more — for me, [a mother has] a different kind of connection to a child. The mother is the one who carried the baby around inside her. There’s something undeniable about that.

GH: Can you each describe your husband in two or three words?

Emma: Exceptional, sensuous, and overactive. I love my husband’s face — and his Donald Duck impression.

Maggie: I’m terrible at this sort of thing; I can’t do it. The big thing is we’re able to talk to each other, which I think is pretty remarkable, to shift things and change things when we need to, and we care enough about each other to try to do that. That’s an amazing thing about him. He’s better at that than I am.

Also, Emma, you kind of gave me the idea that a part of my life, a part of my mind, has to be devoted to my husband. My mother’s generation has been bucking against that. But I’ve just been finding so much pleasure in sacrificing sometimes for my husband — going to where he’s working and tidying up his trailer because he couldn’t manage to do it, and bringing him things that will make him feel better, and being a wife in a more classical way. It feels really right to me.

GH: Do you have date nights, or is that hard to manage?

Maggie: At this point it’s not that hard. Our daughter’s 3 1/2, we don’t have another child yet, so I definitely cherish this little bit of freedom we have at the moment. We don’t leave her alone [with a sitter] hardly ever overnight — but we go out to dinner, we see friends. But we usually put her to sleep first.

GH: How about you, Emma?

Emma: We’re not big goer-outers.

GH: How about family rituals — what are yours?

Emma: Tickling Dad — he’s very ticklish. Oh, and cards in front of the fire, books in bed…

Maggie: A lot of our rituals are around food. We all have breakfast together, and dinner.

GH: What role does faith play in your family life? Maggie, I read that you celebrated Christmas this year with food from a Jewish deli.

Maggie: [laughs] Yeah. I’m half Jewish and half Christian. I identify more as Jewish. My mom’s Jewish, and so all the Jewish cultural heritage got handed down to me. And I think of Ramona as half Jewish and half Catholic. Peter’s Catholic, and he takes it pretty seriously, in his way. That doesn’t mean he goes to church all the time. It’s something deeper inside him. So we mix it up. I have my Jewish grandmother’s bowls, and I know how to make chicken soup in a way that Jewish mothers make it, and we have Passover seder. Ramona’s really interested in all that right now.

Emma: I was brought up within the Christian tradition, [but] I had a fairly secular upbringing. The guiding moral principles, the ethical principles, much of the philosophy, if properly applied, is very good. And I love Christmas. I know all the carols and all the songs, and Greg used to sing in the choir, so in spite of our secularism, we observe the Christmas tradition. And we talk about the [Christmas] story. It’s a very great story, and I grew up with it. It’s very interesting and full of metaphor.

GH: You’re both incredibly busy. What do you each do for yourselves?

Emma: Do you know what I’ve taken to doing? Walking. I love it. But if I have to get somewhere quickly, I take the Tube [subway]…. I do Pilates. I read, see friends. I lie about, staring into space.

Maggie: I do yoga, which is actually a big chunk of time — it’s two and a half hours to myself. I’ve been doing yoga for a while, and I’m good at it, so it gives me pleasure.

I like to cook. I put Ramona to sleep, put on an album, measure everything out, put it in bowls. I used to cook the way my parents cooked: They’d have a dinner party, and they’d still be cooking when their friends came over. When I cook that way, I have a terrible time. I can manage making salad when I have people over — anything else, I just can’t manage it. My brother [actor Jake Gyllenhaal] is an incredible chef, a really gifted chef, and he can cook that way. I can’t do all those things at once!

GH: Any favorite recipes?

Maggie: I’ll give you one that’s so easy: Buy salmon steaks; put lemon juice, olive oil, and lots of sea salt in a cup; whisk it up; pour it over the salmon steaks; and put them on Broil on each side for five minutes. They are foolproof. I have a rice cooker, so I put some rice in it, steam some broccoli, and it’s a beautiful dinner. It takes 20 minutes.

GH: Emma, how about you?

Maggie: How about Yorkshire pudding?

Emma: That’s the best! Well, you have to have Yorkshire pudding tins [popover pans]. And you’ll need 1 1/2 cups of flour, 3/4 cup each of milk and water, and 4 eggs, all mixed up into a batter dough. Then get your beef drippings [they accompany roast beef], and you put a dot into each pan. And when you’ve taken the beef out and it’s sitting, you put your tins in and wait until the fat is smoking, take them out, quickly put in a ladleful of Yorkshire pudding mix, and straight back in for about 25 minutes at the highest-temperature oven (475 degrees). It fills the kitchen with blue smoke. You’ll have to open the door and the window and go, “Smoke! Smoke coming through!” It makes an event, you know.

GH: That sounds like fun, in a terrifying sort of way. Now, since you’re such good friends, maybe we could end by talking about the importance of friends in your lives.

Emma: Girlfriends are vital, aren’t they?

Maggie: It’s a totally different relationship from a husband or someone in your family. And I think it’s pretty unusual when you’re a grown-up to make friends. I have a couple of girlfriends that I make a really big effort to see consistently, and we go and have dinner and drink some wine and talk. I have one girlfriend who lives in Brooklyn near me, and we do that once a week if I’m here.

Emma: And Maggie and I will always see each other when Maggie’s in London or I’m here. We’ll always make time to sit and catch up properly. As long as you get a good couple of hours of dinner or lunch…. Even though we don’t have a long history, I would still ring you up in the middle of the night and say, “Maggie, I really need your help; just talk to me now.”

Maggie: So would I.

Emma: And that’s very unusual. So expect a call at about 4 a.m.

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Gyllenhaal, whose work in the 2009 film “Crazy Heart” earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress, heard music by Seva Venet and the Wilson Charter School band at the Chouest Family Kids’ Tent with her 3-year-old daughter, Ramona.

The 32-year-old said she was in the city for her first Jazz Fest. Her husband, actor Peter Sarsgaard, is also in town filming scenes for “The Green Lantern,” in which he was cast to play villain Dr. Hector Hammond.

“Everyone here has been great,” Gyllenhaal said of her experience with tens of thousands of other Jazz Fest revelers. “The food, the music, it’s all been so good.”

Ramona held her mother’s hand as she danced to several of the Wilson Charter School band’s tunes. On what the festival dubbed “Kids Day,” a group of people sat in folding chairs to their right, and a group of young women sat to their left. No one seemed to take notice of Gyllenhaal, who wore sunglasses and a large sunhat.

According to Gyllenhaal, who said she also spent last weekend at the Fair Grounds, it was actually the children’s tent that produced her family’s favorite show: Kai Knight’s Dance Academy on Sunday.

She said the recital was “very sweet. My daughter got all into it. Both my husband and I were crying.”

On Gyllenhaal’s plate for Friday (April 30) is Elvis Perkins in Dearland at 4:20 p.m. at the New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. She described folk-rocker Perkins as a “friend.”

When Venet and the Wilson band finished their set, Gyllenhaal was the first to applaud. She walked Ramona over to a nearby tent, and together they started working on a painting with another child and her mother.

Gyllenhaal has amassed more than 30 film credits. She is well known for her roles in “The Dark Knight,” “SherryBaby” and “Secretary.”

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]]> http://maggie-gyllenhaal.net/2010/04/966/feed/ 0 http://maggie-gyllenhaal.net/2010/04/maggie-gyllenhaal-discusses-her-personal-style/ http://maggie-gyllenhaal.net/2010/04/maggie-gyllenhaal-discusses-her-personal-style/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:15:21 +0000 Connie http://maggie-gyllenhaal.net/?p=940 After Loft’s preview on Wednesday, stars like Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alexis Bledel and Mena Suvari filed into The Bowery Hotel for a party, which featured Alexa Chung on the turntables and a set by indie band Ra Ra Riot. WWD caught up with Gyllenhaal to talk about the collection, dressing for red-carpet events and the joys of not wearing a bra.

WWD: Why did you come tonight?
Maggie Gyllenhaal: Kate [Young] is a friend of mine and she asked me to come. I usually work with [stylist] Leslie Fremar, but Kate styled me once for this ‘Independent Lens’ special on PBS. I had to introduce 30 movies and wear a different outfit for each one. And we got to really like each other.

WWD: Had you been familiar with Loft before this party?
M.G.: No, not at all. I think this is quite a departure from what they were doing before.

WWD: What do you think of this collection?
M.G.: It’s simple and chic. Take this sweater — you could wear it anywhere. And I love the stripes.

WWD: What’s the look you’re going for these days?
M.G.: I’m really interested in late Seventies — a 1979 Helmut Newton, Yves Saint Laurent [vibe].

WWD: You’ve worn labels like Dries van Noten and Lanvin recently on the red carpet. Do you wear those labels day-to-day?
M.G.: No, I usually dress very practically. I have a three-year-old. I bought this [Acne] dress today because you don’t need a bra with it and I can wear it anytime I want to go out to dinner. That’s what I’m looking for [as a consumer]. The things that I have that are outrageous and wild, and are made by fancy designers are usually things that I wore to something and were given to me. It’s hard to reappropriate those pieces into your everyday wardrobe.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal “hung out” with Emma Thompson on the set of ‘Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang’.

The 32-year-old actress admits she didn’t get to do much work with the star, but they still found the time to enjoy one another’s company.

She said: “We did work together on ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ but we never acted together, not even for a second. And even in this movie it’s not much, we don’t do much together.

“We mostly just hung out together. And she was of course on set all the time as producer and writer. But as actresses we didn’t do much work together.”

The star also admits she enjoyed learning the English accent and believes all Americans have a desire to learn how to speak like a Brit.

She said: “I think most Americans when we come to England we just wish we could talk like you guys for a while and I got to do it in this movie! In fact the dialect coach who I worked with worked with my husband Peter Sarsgaard on ‘An Education’ and he was great. I really liked talking in an English accent.”

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The 32-year-old actress – who plays the role of harassed mother Mrs. Green in the kids’ movie – was drawn to the script because she believes in making good films for children, but her own three-year-old daughter Ramona was too young to see the film.

Speaking at the world premiere of the movie at the Odeon cinema in London’s Leicester Square last night (24.03.10), Maggie told BANG Showbiz: “I do believe it’s important to make movies for kids that are great. My daughter is a little young for this film, but she loves movies and I see how much they sort of soak it all in their little brains.

“But really for me I just wanted to play the part and I wanted to act with Emma. And I cried five or six times while reading the script.”

The star also relished the opportunity to work with British star Emma Thompson, who plays the titular nanny character in the film.

She said: “I think that Emma is a real grown up and I think there are very few people I can say that about. And I hope that one day I can be a real grown up. It’s not that she’s perfect. She’s just really, really committed.”

Despite Maggie being nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in ‘Crazy Heart’ this year, she has no upcoming projects in the pipeline.

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Gyllenhaal walked the blue carpet for the Leicester Square premiere of her new movie with Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang.

The actress said that although she and husband Peter Sarsgaard spent a lot of time across the pond for his acclaimed flick An Education, the culture gap remained vast.

Contact Music reports she said: ‘You know, I have been here so much we shot The Dark Knight here, my husband shot An Education here, but I think it’s funny – we speak the same language and so many things are similar about New York and London but culturally there are huge differences. I have to do a lot of translating, ‘what do they mean by that?’ But I love London, like, love it.’

She continued: ‘London surprises me and continues to surprise me – and when I’m here, I’m always a little on guard of what I say exactly for that reason.’

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But good taste is apparently not genetic.

“My daughter loves these Cinderella and Rapunzel books which someone gave us,” she says of Ramona, her three-year-old daughter with actor husband Peter Sarsgaard (An Education). The couple married in Italy in May last year.

“I hate reading them to her. They’re modern retellings and they’re not about anything. But it’s a complicated one – it’s up to her what she wants to read before she goes to sleep.”

At home – a brownstone in low-key Brooklyn, worlds away from the grand Beverly Hills hotel suite in Los Angeles where we meet – Disney cartoons aren’t normally allowed.

“But when she sees them, she loves them,” sighs the New York-born but LA-raised actor.

“She’s hook, line and sinker. She loves pink and sparkles, my high heeled shoes and make-up. It’s OK. You’ve got to pick your battles. But I do think it’s important to think about the movies that our kids watch, and what those stories are saying.”

The lack of good stories for kids is one of the reasons she signed up for her latest film, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. Set during World War II, it’s a sequel to the children’s film starring and written by Emma Thompson.

Gyllenhaal plays Mrs Green, a harried working mother left to look after a farm and three rowdy kids while her husband (played by Rhys Ifans, The Boat That Rocked) is off at war. Thompson plays Nanny McPhee, the magical nanny who appears when she’s wanted the least and needed the most.

Despite a nearly two-decade age gap – Gyllenhaal is 32, Thompson, 50, – they are now firm friends.

“I really do admire her,” she says. “She said to me the other day that I understood what she was saying before she’d finished a sentence. It’s really true.”

Thompson gave her some acting advice while they were filming.

“I told her afterwards, if another actor had done that, I would have felt like, f— you!” she laughs. “But because it was Emma, I was like, ‘Yes, anything you want!’ ”

The latest Nanny McPhee is a sweet, funny film with plenty of positive messages. In other words, compared with the rest of Gyllenhaal’s CV, it sticks out like a sore thumb. But suggest that it’s a surprisingly uncontroversial choice for her, and she bristles.

“It is sort of conventional, but it’s also witty and smart, and full of love,” she says, tucking a foot under herself as she warms to the subject.

“And I think there’s something very modern about it. I love the fact that Mrs Green is dropping the ball when the movie starts – she’s got a bird’s nest in her hair and she’s having a hard time. But she’s still the heroine.

“It’s pretty new that women feel solid enough in the fact that they’re entitled to be both professional women and mothers that they can stop saying, ‘I can do it all perfectly’.

“All my friends who are mothers say it’s hard. I can’t keep all the balls in the air perfectly. It’s not possible. And that’s OK.

“I was full of fantasies about parenting. My biggest misconception was that I could do it perfectly. But it’s designed to challenge you. No matter what you’ve done in your life, you’ll be a beginner when you have a child.

“I didn’t understand that. You’re constantly presented with things that there’s no way to be great at, because she changes all the time, and I’m constantly at that beginning stage again. I’ve never been good at that. It’s great for me to keep facing that over and over again.”

Gyllenhaal also liked the fact that it’s a wartime film made in a time of war – and aimed at kids.

“Absolutely,” she nods. “There’s lots in it for adults, but it’s really for the children, and those who have a parent away.” Shot in the English countryside during the northern hemisphere’s last summer, the film gave her and Sarsgaard the chance to spend their first months as newlyweds together, despite being a couple since 2002.

They were married in a small chapel in Italy on May 2 last year with her actor brother, Jake, in attendance accompanied by his then girlfriend, Reese Witherspoon.

Jake and Reese’s break-up was followed by the divorce of Gyllenhaal’s parents on Christmas Eve.

Her mother, screenwriter Naomi Foner, and father, director Stephen Gyllenhaal (Maggie’s feature film debut at age 15 was in films,Waterland in 1992, A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998) that were directed by him) had been married for 32 years, and thanks to their children’s fame, the news of their break-up made headlines on celebrity gossip site TMZ.com.

Today, Gyllenhaal brushes off questions about it, although at a recent event she presented an award to the cast of post-divorce sex comedy flick It’s Complicated and reportedly mentioned her own parents, joking that, “I don’t think (they’re) sleeping together any more”.

“I’m definitely a supporter of civil liberties, but the paparazzi go way overboard,” she says.

“They love people’s infants and pregnant people, which is so unfortunate, because when you have an infant, it’s the last thing you want.”

She’s speaking from personal experience. They used to live in the star-packed West Village, where other residents include Sarah Jessica Parker and Julianne Moore.

On the day she went into labour with Ramona, their house was surrounded by “frenzied” photographers. The move out of Manhattan was partly to escape that (“they’ve relaxed a lot on us”).

But it might not have been far enough. A visit to the ocean-side Santa Barbara home of Jeff Bridges, her co-star in the critically acclaimed film Crazy Heart, got her thinking.

“It’s tough raising a young kid in New York. But northern California . . . I really love it up there,” she sighs.

LA would be in easy reach for meetings, but “you don’t have to be around any of it. What a nice way to live”.

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang opens in cinemas on Thursday.

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