In an interview with Movies Online, Maggie Gyllenhaal, 33, discussed her new movie, Nanny McPhee Returns. In the movie her character is distraught from running the family farm and also working at a part time job. She is taking care of five children alone because her on-screen husband, Ewan McGregor, is fighting a war and has been missing for months. She is overwhelmed and in obvious need of Nanny McPhee, played by wonderful veteran actress, Emma Thompson.
Maggie is married to actor Peter Sarsgaard, 39, and they have one child, daughter Ramona, 3. When asked whether she ever got so distraught in her real life she replied,
"I have one child. I don’t know. If I had to take care of five children, alone, and try to make a farm run, and work at a general store for some extra money, while my husband is maybe dead, I think it’s possible that it could get that crazy. Yeah. Don’t you think?"
