It is difficult to reconcile family life with work. That is why there are women who decide to sacrifice their careers when they are at the peak of success to dedicate themselves to their children. They can afford it because they have a more than comfortable economic situation, as is the case with many actresses. After splicing together intense filming far from home and long promotional tours, many interpreters take a hiatus to stop being absent mothers and act as present mothers.
The last to announce a temporary withdrawal from the cinema is the British Emily Blunt (40). In one of the many interviews he has conducted to present the film Oppenheimer, the biography of the father of the atomic bomb that opens next week, he has acknowledged that in recent years he has worked tirelessly and that the time has come to stop. and being with her husband, actor John Krasinski and the two daughters they have in common: Hazel (9) and Violet (7).
“I never feel like I'm doing well. But this year I'm not working”, he revealed on the Bruce Bozz podcast. “In 2022 I worked a lot. My oldest daughter is already 9 years old, and I feel that there are cornerstones in her day that are just as important as when they were little. Filming that takes up a lot is less and less frequent for me because of its emotional cost”
As revealed by the successful protagonist such as The Devil Wears Prada, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, The Girl on the Train, A Quiet Place or Mary Poppins Returns, were the insistent questions that her daughters asked her almost daily, such as: Are you going to wake up? Are you going to take me to school? Are you going to pick me up? Are you going to put me to bed? , which led him to make the decision: "I need to be there for them."
Before Emily Blunt, many other actresses made the same decision. Cameron Diaz, now the mother of 4-year-old Raddick, retired from acting when she married musician Benji Madden, because she said family was her priority. A little over a year ago, during the promotion of The Lost City, Sandra Bullock announced that she was temporarily retiring from acting. “Right now and I don't know how long it will be, I need to be in the place that makes me happiest. I take my job very seriously when I'm doing it. It's 24 hours in 7 days and I just want to be 24 hours in 7 days with my children and my family, ”she confessed to Entertainment Tonight, the actress who has two adopted children: Louis (13) and Laila (11).
Eva Mendes has been away from the film sets for almost a decade and has been completely dedicated to her two daughters Esmeralda (9) and Amada (7), the result of her relationship with the actor Ryan Gosling, whom she met in what is until now her Last film Lost River. "I wanted to be home with my babies and fortunately my other businesses allowed me to do that more than acting would," the businesswoman explained on her social media. She also justified her decision because the roles that she was offered did not excite her.
Phoebe Cates was a very famous young actress in the 80s for titles like That Exciting Course or Gremlins. She married actor Kevin Kline and left her brilliant career when her first child, Owen, was born in 1991. She even had to be replaced at the last moment in the movie Father of the Bride. 3 years later she was born Greta and she is about to turn 60 today (July 16) she is still married to Kline and runs a fashion store in New York.
Michelle Pfeiffer, after starring in great successes such as Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Russia House, Frankie and Johnny or The Age of Innocence, married screenwriter David E. Kelley, was the mother of Claudia and John and He retired to a ranch in San Francisco, to enjoy privacy and raise his children. “It seemed like it was getting harder to say yes [to a job], and the papers didn't justify leaving my family,” she said in an interview. “I didn't want to interrupt his routine over and over again, so I became very picky about when he worked, where he worked, and how long he was away, limiting my options.”
Since 2017 when she became pregnant with her first child, Elena Anaya slowed down her work rate considerably and concentrated on advertising and her real estate company. "I had to stop my career, pause and take some time to fulfill a dream and do the best thing I've been able to do in my life, which is to be a mother." She now has two children with her partner, the costume designer Tina Afugu Cordero, and continues to prioritize family: "Now I have to take into account if I have to travel, if I can take the children to the shoot, factors that are more important than work, but Life goes on and you have to be able to be in everything”, he confessed last year in La Vanguardia Magazine.
