Julianna Margulies Hopes Son Stays Away From Acting

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Emmy Award-winner Julianna Margulies might have found fame and fortune as an actress, but she’s that hoping 2-year-old son Kieran Lindsay, 2, will blaze a different trail.

“Listen, whatever he wants to do I will support wholeheartedly,” the City Island star tells Moviefone, “but I hope he doesn’t want to become an actor.”

Quick to clarify that she loves what she does, Margulies, 43, notes that it is nonetheless “a very difficult profession to break in to.”

She adds, “So if he does want to be an actor, then at 18 he can make that choice. Until then, he’s going to school.”

Citing her role in the film as her favorite to date, Margulies, who also stars in The Good Wife, says that the timing of the shoot couldn’t be better.

“I had just had my baby, and it was so good to be out of my own skin for a minute, and get back into acting and to sort of find my identity again as an actor,” she explains. “And to be able to play someone so out there, it was just fun to disappear.”

Comments

I just find it strange that the thing she loves..you can tell she loves it..she said it..is the very thing she discourages..I find that weird when parents do that.

- lisa on March 25th, 2010

lisa – I was thinking the same thing! It’s strange…

- daniela on March 25th, 2010

I totally agree with you girls…I never understand when actors say that…

- Sandy on March 25th, 2010

While it may seem like there’s a plethora of actors in the industry, only a small amount of individuals who pursue such a career are successful. It’s not a job that offers stability and while one day you may be the best of your kind, the next, you can be unemployed.

It makes sense that although she’d support her son either way, she’d probably want something that was more of a constant and offered stability.

I don’t think it’s strange at all.

- Alicia on March 25th, 2010

She already explained her reasoning: she loves acting BUT it’s a hard profession to break into. And it is. No-one wants a difficult or disappointing life for their child. You’d hope they’d want to do something that offers some peace and security.

- Marie on March 25th, 2010

Ladies, That’s the first thing I always think, too!!

- Sara on March 25th, 2010

although it does sound weird considering acting is what got her to where she is now, none of us have been in her shoes. only someone who has gone through the whole hollywood thing knows. so we shouldn’t say anything because we don’t know.

- lover on March 25th, 2010

It’s much easier to break into the profession when you have a parent in the profession, which her son does. So her comments seem strange to me too.

- Tess on March 25th, 2010

Tess- I’m guessing that, if Kieran DOES chose to go into acting, she wants him to earn his way to the spotlight, rather than her doing favors for him, if you know what I mean.

- CelebBabyLover on March 26th, 2010

CelebBabyLover – That’s what I was thinking, too. And it would be even easier for him since he doesn’t have the same last name. Thereby making it just as hard for him as anyone who doesn’t have a parent in the business. And even if she did do favors for him, he would still be judged to a certain extent by her then. Still making it hard.

- Sarah M. on March 26th, 2010

actually it’s not odd for a parent in showbiz to prefer their child avoid the profession at all. they know exactly how superficial the industry and the majority of industry insiders are, they’re also exposed to others in their profession who put their children in the spotlight (and laud praise even when these children don’t seem to have discernable talent) so maybe she just would prefer her child to avoid that stuff.

- oc on March 27th, 2010