Charlize Theron and Diablo Cody on busting the myth of the supermom in 'Tully'
Two years ago, screenwriter Diablo Cody was in the middle of trying to write "a very big, commercial, four-quadrant movie" when she gave birth to her third child. After her first two kids, she had gotten back in the groove of work, but this time, shattered by exhaustion, she felt herself floundering both as a writer and as a parent.
"I was in this complete haze," Cody remembers. "It was like I was disconnected from reality. All I could do was fantasize about having somebody come and pull me out of this underwater wreckage I found myself in. I thought, I wish somebody would just show up on my porch tonight and just take over everything so that I could take care of myself."
Cody, 39, had always been dismissive of the idea of hiring a night nanny, thinking, she says, "the least I can do is wake up with
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