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Celia Keenan-Bolger Confronts Challenges of Motherhood: ‘Get Comfortable with Not Always Being Liked’ (Exclusive)
Celia Keenan-Bolger, the Tony Award-winning actress who is up again for the theater industry's top honor for her role in Paula Vogel's acclaimed drama 'Mother Play,' opens up to PEOPLE about balancing Broadway with motherhood and learning to accept the harsh reality of "not always being liked" by your child.
PEOPLE caught up with stage veteran Celia Keenan-Bolger to discuss her Tony Award-nominated role in Mother Play The play exposes the difficult choices one makes in motherhood, something the actress says she can relate to as a mom to a 9-year-old son herself Winners of the 2024 Tony Awards will be announced on Sunday, June 16, in a show televised on CBS and Paramount+ Performing in Mother Play each week forces Keenan-Bolger to face the reality that there will likely come a time in her life when her son might need to forgive her. "It's funny, when I was working on TheGilded Age, Laura, Kelli and I were talking about our husbands and the kind of man it takes to have an ambitious wife and to be okay with being the full-time caregiver when needed," Keenan-Bolger recalls.
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