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It wasn’t difficult for Maggie Gyllenhaal to play Jean Craddock in Crazy Heart. She herself had fallen for the “bad boy†before and could relate to being a mother – she has a daughter named Ramona.
NYGossipGirl recently caught up with the actress and talked about her new role and what it was like working with Jeff Bridges.
After having her daughter, Gyllenhaal took some time off, but when Ramona was around 18 months old, she got a sudden urge to get back into acting. She took the role of Rachel in “The Dark Knight” and followed it with Sam Mendes’ “Away We Go.”
“I spent a year and a half, almost 2 years with all of my focus on my daughter and I just kind of went, ‘I need something for me,’ and it was this, it was this movie,†she said. “That’s exactly what Jean is going through. I think she spent a better part of her time completely focused on her child; trying to survive and she’s in an emergency state of where I was.â€
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