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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Felicity Jones worries about "messing up" as a parent

    The 41-year-old actress has a four-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter - whose names have not been released publicly - with husband Charles Guard and admitted that she is always thinking about how to bring up her children, especially in a time when "safeguarding" can be so difficult


    She told The Observer: "I think about bringing up our children all the time, and the thought is: we can't mess it up, we have to do everything perfectly, otherwise they're going to hate us for the rest of our lives. Safeguarding the anarchy and innocence of childhood is so hard to do now."

    The 'Brutalist' star recalled that her own youth felt "limitless" to her because there was a lack of technology back then.

    She added: "Looking back on my own childhood, it felt limitless. Summer holidays away from school felt like they went on forever. Anything before the smartphone was a utopia because we weren't recording every minute of our experiences."

    Felicity began her career as a teenager on children's television before going on to crack Hollywood in the years that followed but recalled that none of that would have happened had her parents not allowed her to attend a weekend drama class where an influential teacher believed in her and the other students.

    She added: "They gave out these leaflets at junior school for a dance, drama and singing group on a Saturday morning. My friend and I begged our parents to take us. Later my father worked as a TV producer at Central Television, and they funded a drama group. We had this fantastic teacher called Colin Edwards who treated us like we were at RADA. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now."

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