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Gyllenhaal: 'McPhee' sequel was exhausting'
Published Monday, Sep 7 2009, 00:30 BST | By Marcell Minaya
Rex Features
The 32-year-old actress has said that her upcoming 2010 comedy Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang has made her decide to wait longer to have more children.
Gyllenhaal told Marie Claire: "I'm playing a mum at her wit's end - tripping over things, with things falling on my head. That kind of physical comedy is exhausting. Especially working with five kids. And sometimes animals."
Gyllenhaal, who has a daughter with husband Peter Sarsgaard, has revealed that despite enjoying motherhood, it was not what she expected it to be.
She added: "Before my daughter was born, I was all, 'I'm only going to feed her organic food, I'm only going to give her cloth diapers...' And then, once you have a real child who is starving on a plane, you give them a bag of potato chips because that's all there is, and they're OK and it's fine."
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