Julia Stiles
Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesJulia Stiles He's learned a thing or two since then Become a mother – Her career in Hollywood has benefited due to fatherhood.
“Being a mother is good training for being a director,” Styles, 43, said exclusively. Us Weekly in I wish you were here Premiering in New York City on Wednesday, January 15. “You have to be good at time management, and you have to be a multitasker.”
She compared managing her three children to managing a film set efficiently, especially when unexpected problems arise. (Stiles shares sons Strummer, 6, Arlo, 2, and… Third child Born in 2023 with husband Preston Cook.)
“You have to be present but you also have to think 10 steps ahead. “You have to be able to function well with sleep deprivation,” Styles joked as she celebrated the release of her latest film at the Crosby Street Hotel.
the The actress explained That through guidance and parenting you must “manage people’s emotions and needs but also guide them.” She concluded: “One hundred percent (it is) the best training.”
Stiles most recently directed and co-wrote I wish you were herewhich follows a woman named Charlotte (Isabel Foreman) in her search for love. When you find someone special, you learn the man (Mina Masoud) is terminally ill, so you commit to helping him celebrate the last days of his life.
“I wanted to make a romantic film that revolves around human characters,” she said of the project, which premieres on Friday, January 17.
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While Stiles said we Her children were “still too young” to watch most of her films, and her eldest child came to sit with her I wish you were here.
“(He) really loved it, so he's excited about this,” she gushed.
Amanda Powers, Gaby Kono Abdi, Julia Stiles, Mena Massoud, Isabel Fuhrman, Molly Conners and Antonique Smith
Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesStiles, for her part, has been prouder of the project ever since It is her directorial debut. (This is her first feature film as a director after working on a 2007 short film and a few of its episodes Paloma.)
“I'll do (many) things differently. There's a lot of movies I've been in that I wanted to repeat just because I was so young and it was full of trial and error,” Styles said. weReflecting her evolution in front of and behind the camera.
Julia Stiles and her husband, Preston Cook, have made sure their relationship has been special for nearly a decade. The actress and Cook, a camera assistant, began dating in 2014 after meeting on the set of her film Blackway, and were quietly engaged a year later. “It was a complete surprise,” Styles said during an interview in July.
“You learn a lot,” she explained As you get older. Now being behind the camera, I really see what it's like in the editing room and how the whole film is put together. Then, if you really trust your director, he or she will protect you in the editing room.
Stiles noted that she would “generally.” “I like not to be afraid” As an actress when I started out I instead learned more about the behind the scenes part earlier. “This is where it all comes down to it.”
I wish you were here It hits theaters on Friday, January 17.
With reporting by Travis Cronin
