Congratulations on the birth of your twins. Are you getting any sleep?
I’m managing, yeah. I’m okay. They’re amazing. They’re sleeping great. It’s a wonderful time for us.
Your last film Did You Hear about the Morgans took you away from family and kids. How difficult was it to not be with them?
My son was in school at the time and it was not great at that point in his life to take him out of school. I was nervous about him being on an airplane without me so we didn’t see each other. And it was horrible and actually it was probably far worse for me but I just can’t let that happen again. And actually on the movie I’m shooting at the moment, we’re going abroad for a longer period of time and my children are coming this time.
You have shown panache in doing comedies. Did you grow up liking this genre?
Oh yeah, I loved them. My whole family did. We would go movie-watching on New Year’s day and it was a big deal for us because we all loved romantic comedies and classic comedies. And then when you could start renting movies we always rented comedies and watched them together at Thanksgiving. My brothers are really, really funny and we laugh a lot in my family.
You’ve talked before about your upbringing and how that had instilled values in you. Do you try and pass those values on to your children?
Well yes, I mean, I try, I’m not alone in that effort because my husband Matthew feels the same way too. We didn’t come from privileged backgrounds so we just worked and Matthew’s father was a journeyman actor, who sometimes made a living and sometimes a year or so went by and they had nothing. When Matthew became an actor, he didn’t become an actor to be rich and famous, he didn’t know that existed. Especially when you’re a journeyman even if you’re a successful journeyman actor at that.
But it was really just about wanting to do good work, that’s all it was. And that’s all I knew. I didn’t know about any of this other peripheral stuff that happens, or doesn’t happen. And I don’t want any different for my son, and it’s very hard to raise a child, to kind of create a false environment for him or her. Meaning that things are different for James — I mean, there isn’t a concern about the electricity bill. The phone bill will be paid.We could pay his tuition for school, we can buy him birthday presents, more than one. There are circumstances that are radically different.So how do you have that as a reality and then also kind of convince him to the contrary? It’s our job to do it. It’s not harder than being broke and I’m not saying woe is us at all. This is a wonderful challenge for us.
You’re filming Sex and the City 2 at the moment. The first film was a huge success. How is the sequel coming along?
I was really pleased with how the first film turned out. I just thought everybody was wonderful and everybody’s work and the important contribution they made was fantastic. And the cherry on that sundae was that people went to see it, which was an enormous relief (laughs). And this one is going beautifully. Funnily enough, I think everybody, specifically among the cast, wants to be here that much more this time. I feel for some reason, all of us are much closer on the sequel.
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