MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL'S MATERNAL ACTS

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Hollywood star and mother Maggie Gyllenhaal's maternal skills came in handy on the set of her new movie Farlanders when she had to calm screaming baby twins on the set. Maggie plays a hippie mom in the Sam Mendes film, her first project since becoming a mother in October 2006. And when her baby co-stars threatened to ruin filming by screaming through take after take, she decided to try to calm them. She explains, "I get to working with a five year old and two 11-month-old twins, who screamed through the entire day."If I had not been a mom and known how to calm a baby, talk and hold the baby, the whole day would’ve been wasted."I thought, ‘Thank God I’m a mother.’ But I didn’t feel like I’ve gone to work and expressed myself and now I’m ready to go home to my baby. I felt like I was a mother all day on that movie.