The Golden Globe winner returned to the London Film Festival with a surreal comedy horror about motherhood. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Hi, Amy.
00:01Hi, how are you?
00:02I'm well.
00:03I'm very well, thank you.
00:04Congratulations on the film.
00:06I'll level with you.
00:07I've got an eight-week-old baby at home.
00:08This is the most tired I've ever been at London Film Festival.
00:09Ever.
00:10Ever.
00:11I'm sure.
00:12Is this a film for me?
00:13A film for my other half?
00:14Both.
00:15Or a film for both of us?
00:16Both.
00:17I think you'll find yourself in it and hopefully end up laughing and having some good conversations
00:22around it.
00:23As a mother in the creative industry, has it been a cathartic experience for you, a particularly
00:29enjoyable one, to be able to play this kind of character and tell this kind of story?
00:32Yeah.
00:33It's definitely cathartic.
00:34It's funny.
00:35I used that word the other night and that a lot of my roles become cathartic in a way
00:39to work through something, but this was definitely cathartic.
00:42This idea of being unfiltered, raw, vulnerable, just feral, really.
00:47And finally, I should ask, have you got any advice for me?
00:52Enjoy it.
00:53Even in the exhaustion, just enjoy it.
00:55I have a 14-year-old and all of the hard times become memories and you just would give
01:00anything to go back and read that story for the 20th time when you get there.
01:05You're in the real trenches right now.
01:07I'm in it.
01:08Yeah, I'm in the college trenches right now.
01:09But, oh gosh.
01:10All of it, that's all it is.
01:12Everything's a stage, you know?
01:14So it's just for a moment and then it passes.
01:16So just enjoy the moment, even if it's in exhaustion, if you can find those moments.
01:20Well, I will do.
01:21Thank you very much for your advice.
01:22Congratulations.
01:25Boy or girl?
01:26A little boy.