Annette Bening : “It was Just Always There”

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AFI Life Achievement Award Dinner

Seeing Annette Bening, 52, today, I see an active political woman who’s care so m ouch to what happen in her country such as an economic matters. Political remains a part of Bening’s personal interests.

Playing in the drama Mother & Child which opening this weekend, as a woman who gave up a child for adoption when she was teen, a mother of four children feeling so lucky with the work she does.

“I can stop and start, which I love. Being able to do this picture was such a gift so I can’t complain. I do plays, too, and I try to find other things. I’m kind of lucky, because I can step in and do something and go away and not have to think about it.”

Playing in the role which traumatic with convincing depth, on Parade she remembers a girl from her childhood.

“I thought about my years in high school and the girls that I knew that got pregnant. It happened to a number of them. I think of a particular girl who disappeared. She was a really vivacious girl who I had known her since I was very little and all of a sudden, she was just gone. Then you heard the rumor, ‘Oh, she got pregnant and her family sent her away.’ Some girls were getting pregnant and then secretly getting abortions, so that happened too. It was profoundly traumatic.”

Mother of four children Kathlyn Elizabeth, 18, Benjamin MacLean, 15, Isabel Ira Ashley, 13, and Ella Corinne, 10, with her husband, Warren Beatty, 73, is saying that motherhood always on her mind, “always there.”

“It was one of the earliest things that I ever wanted when I was a little kid. I wanted to be a mother, so it’s always been in me. I’m not somebody that came to that later and thought, ‘Well, maybe I will and maybe I won’t.’ It was just always there.”

Being a mother is not as easy as it says, there always conflict inside every mom to the chance to have career or to be with the family who needs her. Bening answer it from her side opinion.

“It is very demanding. I’ve got this family who needs me even when I’m working. In some ways it’s crazy-making, but in other ways, it’s so deeply gratifying that I can have the chance to have a career too. We still want to idealize motherhood, including actresses who are moms. We’re all just doing the best we can, trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed and give them their limits and also be their allies. So for everybody, it’s always a bit of a mess and chaotic.”

Marrying with an older man and with reputation had several high-profile relationships with his costars, the marriage can works for 18 years to present.

“I’m sure everybody that has an age difference in their marriage — with Warren and me it’s 21 years — there are times you just have to address it because you’re at different stages of life.”

You need a foundation of fundamental love and mutual respect and understanding. There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it’s sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.”

“My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we’re years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.”

Bening understands the difficulties as mom especially with the celebrity title follows. She’s comparing to what celebrity mom have to endure these days.

“When Warren and I were first together and I was pregnant, we would get followed around by photographers.”

“But it was nothing like what celebrities have to endure these days. It has reached such a level that I think it can be incredibly injurious. For people that get chased all the time, it just must be a nightmare. Really, that would be horrible.”

“Warren and I had a bit of that, but you know, we weren’t a scandal for very long. Very quickly we had a kid and it was like, ‘Oh yeah, they are just like married with children,'” Bening said.