Vera Farmiga Had Mixed Feelings Filming Up in the Air Two Weeks After Giving Birth
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Vera Farmiga may have snagged a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role in Up in the Air, but she still wonders if it was worth it.
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Why? The actress, 36, gave birth to her son, Fynn, now 1, two weeks before she had to start filming.
"I could never reclaim these first precious moments of maternity," she tells USA Today. "[But] I needed to pay my mortgage. It wasn't an option. I had to do the role."
Not only that, Farmiga was nervous about having to seduce George Clooney when she was nursing and struggling to drop post-pregnancy weight.
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"It was strange having to portray that frank sexuality when I did not feel sexy in the least bit," Farmiga says. "But that's what I loved about her. I loved how daring she was. She makes sex, on screen, fun. She was curious and was gliding through life with grace and a sense of humor, and wit and self-possession and open-heartedness and femininity and sensuality and sexuality."
Critics have praised her work, and Farmiga just hopes it means the studio doesn't regret casting her -- a fear she had while meeting with executives throughout her pregnancy.
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"We met when I was four months pregnant, six months pregnant, eight months pregnant," Farmiga says. "The studio was panicking. I felt that. And it destroyed me. I wanted to walk away from this career. I felt incredibly insecure."
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4typical vain actress and it's not like she's the first oscar nominated or winning actress to nurse a child or children Joanne Woodward for one did it with all three of her daughters and took a year and a half to two years off for each pregnancy/birth granted she had that luxury in part do to winning her oscar before her & Hubby Paul Newman's daughters were born and also at least for the birth of their youngest daughter Claire in April 1965 pauls paychecks were 350k or so a film plus back end profits so she didn't have to work as much and besides back then actresses couldn't get decent roles after age 35 anyway which is how old she was when Claire was born so Vera should keep her mouth shut
I agree that Vera Farmiga nailed the role, and maybe her wistfulness about the new baby carried over into the role...that vague aloofness that leads to a key plot point. But she's also apparently un-selfaware: c'mon....she needed to pay her mortgage? That's absurd and a bit insulting to those of us genuinely struggling. To feed her career, oh my yes.
She was amazing in that film. She looked great and her acting was excellent. Loved the frankness of her character, how she explains life to the young corporate girl. Would never have guessed she just had a baby or was not feeling sexy because she really nailed the role.
Aww, I'm sorry Vera Farmiga had mixed feelings filming Up in The Air two weeks afer she gave birth, I'm glad she got a nomination, though, for the film!