What is it like to be an 18-line actor?
Not a big-name star, but an actress mother who can cook dinner for her children almost every day and send them to school.
"Better Things" heroine Sam is such a person.
Appearance: Short, fat, not beautiful.
Age: People to middle age.
Occupation: Actor.
Status: Single mother of three daughters.
Sam loves her job, she's really creating something, a character.
Luckily, at least she was happy when she got home from get off work before she was exhausted by housework and children. There are still many people in the world who feel that life is like shit whether they go to work during the day or at home at night.
Being an 18th-line actor is quite similar to an ordinary employee in the company. In order to compete for a role, line up for an interview; during the break on the set, hundreds of actors share a toilet, and the director has one for his own; complain with colleagues about who wrote the bullshit script; and enlighten and guide newcomers.
Because I'm not famous, I don't need sunglasses and masks to be fully armed when walking on the street. Occasionally I'm stopped by passers-by and ask you who has acted in that or something, or the person next to the plane said that I grew up watching your dramas since I was a child. of.
Sam is a super breadwinner. She has three daughters to care for, a single mother who lives next door, and an ex-husband who is looking for her for alimony. The eldest Max is 16 years old, a girl with puberty syndrome who is full of female charm and mean girl.
The second child, Frankie, is about to enter puberty, with short hair like a boy, full of personality, but sensitive and delicate inside.
Duke is still a clingy little boy who wants his mother to sleep with him.
Sam pays all her daughters' expenses by herself, she owns her own house, each daughter has their own room, and the living room is spacious enough for parties, but not too big to be extravagant. Overall a comfortable and homey home.
In the distance of a bowl of soup, she bought a small house for her mother and let her mother who lived alone live next to them.
Sam is a strong breadwinner and shows that she has been paying alimony to her ex-husband since the divorce. Because US law stipulates that the party with the higher income must support the other party after a divorce.
So, you need to be careful in marriage, and even more careful in divorce!
The ex-husband is a soft-hearted man. He doesn't work and has no children. As his wife's fourth child, he has been taking care of him.
After the divorce, he rarely came to see his children once a year, often making an appointment but breaking it. The daughters are both hurt and miss him all the time.
Why are their daughters attached to such a father?
Aside from the blood factor, he is like a big child. Because he doesn't want to take the responsibility of raising children, he can get along with children of his age; because he is too lazy to discipline children, he never blames them. In the child's mind, the father who always breaks appointments is a good-looking, romantic, easy-going and happy big friend.
As a daughter, how can you not like such a father? On the contrary, the mother who has been paying is more like a bad person. But when they grow into a woman, they definitely don't want such a husband!
It was rare for a father to come home to see his daughters. After dinner, Dad and eldest daughter were sitting in front of the piano, and Max leaned on Dad's shoulder to sleep comfortably.
Frankie was reading a book on the sofa next to him, at ease and at ease.
Duke sat on the steps next to the piano, drinking milk, books and snacks on his lap.
A picture of a peaceful family.
When it was time to go to sleep, the painting style changed drastically.
Frankie asked Dad to sleep, and Sam also hoped that the ex-husband would settle the daughters before leaving. The father, who looked tall and made people feel full of security, immediately found a reason to escape.
Being a mother is too tiring, with many hardships and twists and turns. If you don't have kids, don't have kids!
Sam said in a speech that she and her best friend cried almost every day when their children were in kindergarten because they were so tired!
It's normal for a first-time mother to collapse, and joy is just the moment of posting on the circle of friends. What's more precise is that he was already crying in the storm in his heart, and while facing the baby, his face immediately put on tenderness and vitality.
Once there is a baby in the house, the amount of housework will increase dramatically. There will be endless housework and heart. In the middle of the night, I just want to drink a drink and forget everything. When I wake up and start again, I suddenly think that breastfeeding can't be done. drink wine.
When the child is old, you don't need to breastfeed or coax you to sleep, can you relax when you can sleep through the night again? It's just that the tired ingredients are more advanced.
I revisited Gossip Girl some time ago. I originally wanted to relive my youth, but I didn't want to burst out the understanding and relief of the parent-child relationship.
Thirty years later, when you face your 17-year-old child, you suddenly understand all the things your mother made you hate when you were 17 years old.
Serena, mother and grandmother, the endless cycle of contradictions between their generations. It is because they are good mothers!
Influenced by the family of origin, they are also constantly repeating the lack of treatment of their children. But even when it comes to what they are doing, they have done their best.
What's more, in addition to the identity of mother, they are still a woman, and they are themselves.
Better Things was written and starred by one person - Pamela Alderon, I thought I was seeing this actor's work for the first time, in fact many of us listened to Pamela's voice ten times It's time for the year!
Pamela in "The Big Bang Theory" as Howard's weird mom who never shows up but keeps her voice piercing everyone's eardrums! !
This American drama is almost a semi-autobiographical experience of Pamela. Pamela herself raised three daughters independently, and she is a successful actress and screenwriter.
To be a mother hanged by life is like this——
If you succeed, just like Pamela, you not only raise three children in a decent manner, but also continue to output good works, family, fame and wealth, and three harvests; if you fail, you will become Jin Zhiying, born in 1982. , The child is still young, and he is tired into schizophrenia.
There are countless women, like our mothers and grandmothers, who have been worrying and working hard all their lives, and have spent their lives in constant compromise.
If you don't have kids, don't have kids!
If you have a child, even if it is raised by a single parent, it is an extremely precious gift from God!
In this world, even if your heart is so hard that nothing matters, you will still have the last soft spot. Children may give you a headache after they enter puberty from soft and cute babies. These problem boys and girls may be mean, but they are also surprisingly warm.
Listen to their inner voice and give them the chance to warm and heal you.
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