Little disasters' diane kruger shares candid insight on motherhood

Little Disasters is based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Vaughan and it follows four friends who are brought together through antenatal classes. Jess (played by Diane Kruger) is the

glamorous member of the group who seems to have her life in order when it comes to raising her baby girl, Betsey. Her close friend Liz (Jo Joyner), who works as an A&E doctor, is shocked

when she comes across Jess and Betsey at the emergency department. When she discovers the baby has sustained an unexplained head injury, she is faced with a tough decision. Although she

does not want to pass judgement on her friend, she suspects Jess is not being honest about what happened to her daughter. Ahead of the show's release, actress Diane Kruger spoke to

Reach and other press about how she connected with her character. She said: "I had empathy for all the characters, Jess in particular I felt the was so hard on herself. I could feel her

anguish and embarrassment with having these thoughts in her head, trying to make it all work, trying to be this perfect mum. "Being a mum myself of course, some of that I recognised in

myself. I felt for her and I just thought she was a really good person struggling and too embarrassed to ask for help." This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a

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and Dexter: Original Sin by signing up for a free trial via Amazon Prime's Paramount+ channel. £0 Paramount+ Diane is a mother of one to daughter Nova, whom she shares with her partner,

actor Norman Reedus. She has previously opened up about how she didn't plan on having children initially, but when she reached her mid-30s, she contemplated her life's purpose.

Continuing to address the challenges of motherhood, she said at the Little Disasters press event: "For mothers there's an immense want to do well, I think we want the best for our

children. "Those pressures are the strongest that we feel and we have the tendency to judge others. "We are very convinced about the choices we make as mothers and how we want to

raise our children, and I know that from my own life, no one can go through that time without the support of other women and friendship groups." The Inglorious Basterds actress admitted

it was a challenge to film some of the more emotionally heightened scenes. "It was difficult at first, I wasn't quite clear on how we were going to film that, how do you visualise

intrusive thoughts?" she said. "I had to rely a lot on the camera doing that for me. It was challenging also because we didn't shoot the show episodically, so for me that was

tough because we had to go back and forth, but it got easier over time." The series is made up of six episodes and also stars Bridgerton's Shelley Conn and Irish actress Emily

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