In Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s new film, the star plays a woman crushed by childrearing. It’s not the only pressure women are under, she says
Amy Adams at the 15th Governors Awards held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on November 17, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
The chilling key line comes when McNairy asks what happened to his hitherto easygoing wife. “She died in childbirth!” Adams, whose character is known simply as Mother, snaps back. Both Heller, the gifted director of, and Adams are themselves parents. Can I tentatively ask if that line rang any bells with either of them? That almost seems a rude question.
By appearing in Nightbitch she has, however, inadvertently opened up inquiries about her attitude to motherhood – and fatherhood for that matter. The dad in Nightbitch is no sort of monster. But he exemplifies a common inability among dads to position themselves within their partners’ harried psyches. Is empathy even possible from a father? Is it too pessimistic to think not?
“There is this ever-raising bar of expectation,” Adams says. “As much as you get right, there is always something else to criticise. There’s something else to attack. There’s something else to find fault in.”
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