Michelle Williams Hopes Matilda Becomes a Doctor
Originally posted Monday February 23, 2009 12:00 PM EST
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Despite having two actors as parents - and, in the case of her late father, Heath Ledger, an Oscar winner - Michelle Williams's little girl, Matilda, will not grow up in Hollywood, her mother insists.
In fact, Williams, 28, hopes that Matilda, 3, will one day become a doctor. Not that Matilda doesn't have ideas of her own. Her mother admits that currently she wants to be a cowgirl.
With an eye to taking some time from movie work, Williams tells the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph that she is currently very much a stay-at-home mom.
Williams also says that would not raise her daughter in Los Angeles "for all the obvious reasons. Being an actor's daughter. It's a town that's about one thing, and I want her to have options."
Williams spoke in detail for the first time late last year about missing Ledger - who was found dead in a New York apartment on Jan. 22, 2008 - and said that her grief "just gets worse."
A Domestic Life For Williams, life at the moment is one of "cooking, baking, cleaning and sewing," she tells the Telegraph. "As a young actress, you feel this intense pressure to work. Everybody says, 'The time is now.' But I can be 28 and take a year off. Hopefully they'll still be something to go back to."
Being an actress "comes with so much baggage," says the Wendy and Lucy star. "It used to be a refuge and now it's a hassle."
As for her career future, she adds, "I'll be happy making movies for $300,000 for the rest of my life if the roles are interesting."
http://www.people.com/peo...ticle/0,,20260817,00.html
She makes it seem like 300k is nothing. Meanwhile the average
family's salary put together isn't even half of what she makes for one little film.
