Ronan Farrow ‘Gently Nudged’ Mia Farrow to Return to Acting After ‘Periods of Time Where She’s Reluctant to Come Back to It’: ‘That’s a Gift for All of Us’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ronan Farrow revealed at the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance that he was the one to gently nudge his mother, Mia Farrow, back into acting.

Farrow spent last fall on Broadway opposite Patti Lupone in Jen Silverman’s play “The Roommate.” Prior to that, she had a supporting run on the Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix series “The Watcher.” But she’s been off screens otherwise for nearly a decade. “I look at a career like my moms and she’s such an incredible talent,” Ronan told Variety’s Tatiana Segal. “I run into directors and writers in my generation who are obsessed with her body of work and want her to share that and share her talent.

Understandably, she has gone through periods of time where she’s reluctant to come back to it. Lord knows she’s had her go of it in this industry, highs but also the dark side of it. [Getting her to act again] did take some conversation.” Ronan said that after Mia’s successful Broadway run and the reviews she earned she may have once again caught the acting bug. “So many actors came up to me and said, ‘It’s one of the great performance,'” he added. “I am happy to say that while I did gently nudge her and said, ‘I’ll read the script and if it’s good then it’s worth doing,’ she is now in a place that if it’s the right thing and a rich, fulfilling part then she’ll say yes.