Real Life Mirrors Stage Life for Mary Lynn Rajskub
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24‘s Mary Lynn Rajskub didn’t plan on being a mother on screen and off at the same time, but the experience is proving to be a benefit for the actress! Mary Lynn, who welcomed son Valentine Anthony six months ago, laughs that “it’s kind of weird how my real life has mirrored my stage life. I didn’t understand it before … But it gives you a tenderness, another level to my extremely leveled character.”
While the 37-year-old has been able to use her parenting experience to help her play new mom Chloe O’Brian, she knows that “having a job as an actress is not as hard as being a mother because on set there’s a lot of downtime.”
“Motherhood is pretty relentless. You can’t walk away from it. It’s a new kind of responsibility. One that will really kick your ass to the next part of your life. It’s a little guy and I’ve got to take care of him.”
Dad is Mary Lynn’s boyfriend Matthew Rolph — she thinks. “Jack Bauer is my child’s father on camera and off,” the actress jokes about co-star Kiefer Sutherland‘s character. “It happened under the craft services table. There are tunnels underneath the stage.”
24 airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on FOX.
Source: The TV Addict
