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Adolescence star Stephen Graham once offered to adopt child co-star after mother’s death

Adolescence star Stephen Graham once offered to adopt child co-star after mother’s death

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Stephen Graham is receiving huge acclaim following his new show Adolescence, for which he plucked newcomer Owen Cooper from obscurity to overnight stardom. Cooper, who is 15, is being tipped for Bafta victory for his debut acting performance as Jamie Miller, a child accused of murder, in the sleeper Netflix hit, which has become the most-streamed title in both the UK and the US within its first week of release. Graham told The Independent that the team behind the series were adamant that they would “create opportunities” through the show’s production, giving a chance to people “who may not normally have those opportunities”. Despite the’s show’s impressive one-shot filming technique, Graham has branded Cooper’s performance Adolescence’s “biggest achievement”. But this isn’t the first time the show’s production company, Warp Films, have unearthed talent. In 2006, This is England introduced the world to Thomas Turgoose, who developed …

Parenting lessons from the animal kingdom’s best mothers

Parenting lessons from the animal kingdom’s best mothers

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Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Instinct plays a huge role in parenting, and humans can learn a lot from the animal kingdom. Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal, which explores parenting in the natural world, says that there’s an “extraordinary diversity” when it comes to raising offspring. “There are single mums and single dads, parenting couples and communal breeders, as well as offspring capable of fending for themselves from birth,” she says. Animals find a style of parenting that meets the needs of their niche, she says. Motherhood is a “live balancing act between parent, infant and the wider world”. Here are some of the best animal parents that Ms Jukes has identified: 1. Polar bears Polar bear mothers are known for their dedication, but they also exhibit a unique form of control over their reproductive process. …

‘Mother’s Baby’ Director Johanna Moder on Berlin Film, Claes Bang

‘Mother’s Baby’ Director Johanna Moder on Berlin Film, Claes Bang

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The dream of motherhood turns into a nightmare in Mother’s Baby, the new film from Austrian director Johanna Moder (High Performance, Once Were Rebels, TV series School of Champions) that is world premiering in the competition program of the 75th Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 18. 40-year-old Julia (Marie Leuenberger) is a successful conductor and has a loving partner (Hans Löw). So what could she be missing for complete happiness? Well, the couple is longing for a child. Luckily, a fertility doctor (Claes Bang) offers them hope and treatment. Unfortunately, though, the birth does not go as planned, and the baby is taken away, leaving Julia in the dark about what has happened. When reunited with the child, she feels strangely distant. And she begins to doubt whether this is really her baby. From there, the co-production between Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, which was co-written by Moder and Arne Kohlweyer, takes the audience on a female journey full of tension and simmering doubt. Moder, who has two children, talked to THR‘s Georg Szalai about how …

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett

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In his latest novel, Mothers and Sons, Adam Haslett demonstrates his extraordinary ability to excavate the deepest chambers of human relationships with surgical precision and profound empathy. Following his previous works like the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here and the emotionally devastating Imagine Me Gone, Haslett has crafted a narrative that feels both intimately personal and universally resonant. The Architecture of Silence The story centers on Peter Fischer, a 40-year-old asylum lawyer in New York City, whose ordered if isolated life begins to unravel when he takes on the case of a young gay Albanian immigrant, Vasel Marku. Through this professional encounter, we witness the gradual erosion of the careful walls Peter has built around a traumatic event from his teenage years – one that has kept him estranged from his mother, Ann, for decades. Ann, now running a women’s spiritual retreat center in Vermont with her partner Clare, carries her own burden of silence regarding that pivotal moment in their shared past. Haslett masterfully weaves together their parallel journeys toward …

Mothers who wrote books for their children: Sun Xueling, Priscilla Tan, Sophia Huang, Stojana Popovska

Mothers who wrote books for their children: Sun Xueling, Priscilla Tan, Sophia Huang, Stojana Popovska

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She was an accountant who, in 2019, had just left her career to care for her then two-year-old. As a stay-at-home-mother, Priscilla Tan wanted to read inspiring books about female role models to her daughter. Frustrated that she could not find many such books that were age-appropriate for her toddler, she decided to write her own. Together with her husband Shawn, she ran a Kickstarter campaign in early 2020 to fund it, raising more than S$60,000. This caught the attention of book publisher Marshall Cavendish, which offered the Tans a publishing contract. In 2020, they launched six board books under their Leaders series, featuring among them, Singapore’s first female president Halimah Yacob, former American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. In 2022, the couple launched their Activists series, also six books. It featured women such as Academy Award-winning actress Michelle Yeoh, Pakistani women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai, and the former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. Source link

Nicole Kidman announces mother’s death after missing Best Actress win in Venice

Nicole Kidman announces mother’s death after missing Best Actress win in Venice

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Nicole Kidman missed out on receiving the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at Venice Film Festival on Saturday (September 7) due to the death of her mother, Janelle Ann Kidman. She was 84. The actor received the award for her role in Babygirl, Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller in which Kidman stars opposite Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness). Reijn read a statement on Kidman’s behalf, saying she had flown into Venice, only to find out “shortly after that my beautiful, brave mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, has just passed.” “I’m in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her. She shaped me, she guided me and she made me. I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you through Halina,” the statement continued. “The collision of life and art is heartbreaking, …

Mothers shoulder the “mental load” of housework – and it’s impacting their well-being

Mothers shoulder the “mental load” of housework – and it’s impacting their well-being

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When you think about housework, you likely think of actions: scrubbing the dishes, running errands, chopping vegetables for dinner. And it’s not news to say that mothers often shoulder the burden for most of those activities. But there’s an invisible dimension of household labor that unfolds behind the scenes: the cognitive effort that goes into anticipating needs, planning, organizing and delegating household tasks. In other words, someone has to remember to replace the dish soap and select which vegetables to chop. Our new research found that this cognitive dimension of housework, often called the “mental load,” is divided even more unevenly within couples than the physical dimension – and it seems to take a particular mental health toll on women. According to the study we published in the Archives of Women’s Mental Health, mothers who take on a more disproportionate share of cognitive household labor report higher levels of depression, stress, relationship dissatisfaction and burnout. Tracking who does what We asked 322 mothers of young children about who in their family is responsible for 30 …

‘I treated the birth like a mini-Olympics’: the Team GB mothers going for gold at the Paris Games | Parents and parenting

‘I treated the birth like a mini-Olympics’: the Team GB mothers going for gold at the Paris Games | Parents and parenting

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‘Weirdly, I came back in better shape. It was like a reset’ Nekoda Smythe-Davis is a Commonwealth gold medal-winning judoka (judo expert) who has won silver and bronze at the World Championships and represented Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics. Being an athlete mum feels like the hardest job in the world. It is such a juggle; a balancing act. You feel like you’re burning the candle at both ends and you are trying to give 100% to two different areas – in some ways you are splitting yourself in two – but it is rewarding when you get it right. And all the sacrifices that I make will set us up for life if things pan out the way I want them to. I’ve always had a nurturing side. When you speak to any of my teammates, I was the mother of the group, even before I had Ryia. Being around very strong, independent women – my mum and my judo coach, Jo Crowley, who has four kids – has definitely driven that. I …

New Mom Upset Her Husband Went Golfing On Mother’s Day

New Mom Upset Her Husband Went Golfing On Mother’s Day

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Who is Mother’s Day really for? Is it for your mom who raised you, that aunt who made sure you had a motherly figure in your life, or the spouse who just had a baby? Maybe it’s all, none of them, or just one? New mothers, grandparents, and even partners have weighed in on the debate. While many argue there’s a clear line between “right and wrong” in policing Mother’s Day celebrations, many admit they usually just go with the flow. It’s exactly what Jacky Bertholomey‘s husband did — he went with the flow. Unfortunately, it took him to the golf course with his friends on Mother’s Day.  Bertholomey was upset after her husband decided to golf on Mother’s Day. In a shadily hostile TikTok from May 8 — just four days out from Mother’s Day — Bertholomey reflected back on her first holiday as a new mom.  RELATED: Mom Claims Mother’s Day Is ‘A Scam’ & Says She’d ‘Happily Trade Brunch For Paid Family Leave’ Anticipating a card or maybe breakfast in bed, when …

What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?

What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?

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  Across much of the United States, the second Sunday in the month of May is reserved for mothers, a celebration known as Mother’s Day. The day is dedicated to mothers of all kinds, and to the act of being maternal, or nurturing, to another human being, which people celebrate in a variety of ways, from gift giving to family events. Other parts of the world, meanwhile, celebrate mothers on differing calendar dates. But when did the Mother’s Day tradition begin, and how did it become such an entrenched annual event? We delve into the history of Mother’s Day in the US to find out more.   The Pioneering Work of Ann Jarvis Ann Jarvis, US activist from Virginia. Source: Vox Magazine   In the late 19th century, a social activist from Virginia named Ann Jarvis (also known as Mother Jarvis) played a key role in establishing the roots of the Mother’s Day traditions in the US. As a mother of at least 11 children, who had faced her own series of devastating struggles and …