Daniel/Elder Ordonez/INF Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has been open and honest about her reasons for accepting a role in Crazy Heart . In a new interview with The Huffington Post she goes one step further, revealing that were she not a real life mom to daughter Ramona , 3, she couldn’t have portrayed Jean Craddock — an Academy Award-nominated performance — with any authenticity. “I’ve played mothers before I was a mother and, I think, successfully — sometimes anyway,” she muses

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Maggie Gyllenhaal: Motherhood Informed My Crazy Heart Role