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Amy Adams Opens Up About 'Closet Crying' and Struggles as a New Mom: 'Wanting So Badly to Be Good at Everything' (Exclusive)
Amy Adams, who stars in the new movie 'Nightbitch,' opens up to PEOPLE about difficulties after she welcomed her daughter Aviana.
She’s joking, but that often destabilizing period is the inspiration for Nightbitch, in which her character, simply named Mother, is battling an imploded sense of self after welcoming her son. Unmoored and succumbing to animalistic instincts driven by the isolation of childcare—and an absent husband (Scoot McNairy) who blithely imparts to his wife that “happiness is a choice”—Mother seemingly starts morphing into an actual dog. Adams recalls “watching it all sort of fall apart because I wasn’t communicating what I really needed…Just burning the candle at both ends until you can only do that for so long, and doing what I call closet crying.
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