Zoe Kazan has opened up about parenthood, less than three months after giving birth to her first child with her partner Paul Dano.
Actress and writer Kazan, 35, confessed that becoming a mother to their daughter Alma has been “terrifying”.
She told ES Magazine: “It’s a really weird time... altogether it’s a little overwhelming. Everything looks different on the other side of having a child.” She added: “It’s terrifying. We are trying to learn a lot about this person and what they need, and how to do the really simple things that seasoned parents know how to do.”
She said the couple planned to take time off work but instead she found herself on the promotional trail of two movies — the Coen Brothers’ western Buster Scruggs and drama Wildlife, which she co-wrote with Dano, 34.
The couple, who met while performing a play in New York in 2007, have acted together twice more — in films Meek’s Cutoff and Ruby Sparks. But she joked that after Wildlife, they would not work together again.
She explained: “It’s very hard because you’re spending all day together on set, and then you’re going home together. There’s no other person in the relationship making sure that there’s food in the fridge and toilet paper.”
In Buster Scruggs, she plays Alice Longabaugh, a solemn girl riding a wagon train towards an uncertain future in Oregon.
