Maggie Gyllenhaal on mainstream films, fashion and juggling motherhood and a career in acting
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sofia coppola Since becoming a mother to six, Ramona and 15-month-old Gloria Ray, she said: "This is what we speak, we do a lot of talking about how we do it.".
And like all families around the world, things do not always go as planned.
"We try to organize our schedules so one of us is at home while the other works, but it does not always work that way," says Gyllenhaal.
"For Peter and me, it's really hard. We work all the time."
On the screen, however Gyllenhaal work very well. In his latest film, the blockbuster White House down, she plays Carol Finnerty, an intelligence officer of high rank.
If call has an old flame and unreliable (Channing Tatum), the White House about a possible job protecting the president (played with brilliant humor by Jamie Foxx), she turns her back.
But things take a different turn when the president himself is the target of domestic terrorism, with a person in order to protect him - John Cale Tatum.
Let us be clear here.
Down White House will not win any Oscars, it's a feel-good movie, a great day in the tradition of the film very hard life, where the erroneous hero tries to make reparation for personal sins and professional record - John McClane Bruce Willis the wedge Tatum.
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White House down is not fare Gyllenhaal. Although they in the 2008 movie Batman The Dark Knight was released, it's not really the blockbuster guy. In fact, before the deer came Zooey Deschanel, Gyllenhaal was the queen champion indie cinema, which first came to notice in sadomasochistic Secretary in 2002.
As such, it is completely honest when asked about his motives for taking such a traditional role.
"I think in a sense, there is something exciting you could want in a film that many people have to see," she said, adding that "it does not hurt to work with Channing."
"There are many films that I've done what I think many people are great, but not really, so it's good enough for me to be part of something that is like a BigMachines. I am currently working on films, do not have a budget, and we were treated very well. I have a small baby, and the crew were very kind to allow me breastfeeding breaks, so it helps to have a nice trailer. "
Gyllenhaal was also happy that his character was "a strong, capable, intelligent" woman - a rarity in movies like this.
More interestingly, it is "vulnerable, exhausted, confused and scared - as I and every woman I know."
When you talk about the 35-year-old, she is passionate and committed. His answers do not seem as if it unwinds from the heart, and it's a real feeling comes and goes with him - and that is extremely rare in celebrity interviews.
In fact, Gyllenhaal has never hesitated to express his own political opinion. She was a strong advocate against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq supports infamous whistleblower Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, while also heavily involved in supporting the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization his entire family.
Hollywood, of course, often do not want their star to be political (a little too).
Jane Fonda, Richard Gere, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon have all suffered over the years for their non-populist views, and who can forget Michael Moore documentary is booed at the Oscars 2003, while trashing President George W. Bush? Louis Vuitton
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