Let’s state the obvious right away: Personally and professionally, Sarah Polley is blooming right now.
The Canadian filmmaker, 32, is expecting her first child early next year.
She’s also just delivered a terrific new movie she wrote and directed called Take This Waltz. It opens later this year.
Starring Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen as a married couple and Luke Kirby as the handsome neighbour who comes between them, Take This Waltz is an intense look at the workings of love and loyalty in a relationship. (The performances are stunning; this is going to mark a whole new chapter for Seth Rogen.)
But everyone thinks the movie is autobiographical. Polley was married and divorced and then recently remarried, a series of events that gives rise to comparisons with Take This Waltz. But, nah: “I would never in a million years write a film that had to do with my own life,” said the filmmaker yesterday, during an interview at a Toronto hotel.
“I would make a documentary, maybe, but I would certainly never expose myself in a way that I would want to have other people dramatize.”
Polley added, “Every short film I’ve ever made and my two feature films are all about long relationships, and another person, and the end of the long relationship. It’s material I’ve been returning to every since I was 20 years old, so for about 12 years. If it had been autobiographical, I would have been much more prepared to answer questions about myself and my life than I am.” She laughed.
As for her other big project, Polley seems surprised people are as interested in her pregnancy as they are in her movie. She’s a bit embarrassed about that.
“I just told someone I was pregnant. Then it was reported that I had announced I was pregnant, which is pretty weird if you’re not famous enough to be announcing anything,” she said, laughing. “This is all new to me. I’ve always been open about whatever is going on in my life, but nobody’s ever cared. That’s one of the great things about living in Canada and not leaving,” continued Polley, who grew up in the public eye as a child actor known for her role in TV’s Road to Avonlea, and still lives in Toronto. “People don’t care that much about your personal life.”
“No one reported when I got married or divorced or remarried so it’s funny to me how the pregnancy has been such news,” she said, cheerfully. “I’m not sure what to do with it.”
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