Amber Dowling The Mother — that role that was once cautioned against for young actors — is far more realistic than it used to be.
This year’s crop of comedy actress Emmy nominees plays an array of characters that embrace the authenticity of motherhood as a piece (not entirety) of the female experience, relegating June Cleaver archetypes firmly in the rearview mirror.“The industry is finally opening it up.
We do have a voice that isn’t a man writing a movie about two women being catty and then being the Type A mom,” says “Dead to Me’s” Christina Applegate. “They do exist, but most of us aren’t like that.
Most of us are suffering. Most of us are struggling to be — not the best that we can be, but just be enough.” Applegate adds that there is.
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