Amber Graydoesn’t have an agenda — she just wants other working moms to know they’re not alone.
Gray opens up about the reactions to the photograph in theALL ARTSseriesFamous Cast Words, recalling Madrid telling her after capturing the moment that he’d send those photos directly to her.
“I realized he wasn’t planning on submitting them to his editor as pieces to actually put into the world and I was like, ‘This is what I do every single intermission, and have done since 2016,’ ” says the mom of two. ” ‘You can put this into the world, and this is just working motherhood.’ ”
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“I would love a moment when that photo does not go viral — when it’s not empowering to people, it’s just normal,” the Tony nominee says. “And people were like, ‘What’s your agenda?’ I’m like, ‘There’s no agenda. A quarterof the world are working mothers. It’s just normal life.’ ”
Gray previously spoke with PEOPLE over the summer last year, revealing that doing eight shows a week as a mom to two toddlers was “wild,” especially considering one of her children was going to the hospital often at the time.
But there was a “silver lining” to the situation’s timing, she noted: “It makes award season not so stressful becausemy stress has gone someplace else.”
Hadestown.
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“I’ve had way less anxiety, around all of the awards stuff and the press stuff at this time, than I thought I would. But that is because I’m worrying about something else … that is more important to me,” said the actress and singer.
“My highs are not as high and my lows are not as low the older I get, about anything,” Gray added. “And here’s the moment in my career that I’ve always wanted, and always dreamt of, and it’s here. Andit feels very celebratory, butI also feel like my feet are very much still on the ground. It’s like I have felt all of the emotion in the past month.”
source: people.com
