It makes me choked up just thinking about it," Moss said. She addresses this when speaking at a college alumni function, where she describes the idealization of successful women and admits that she, an outwardly accomplished professional, feels abandoned by her friends. One of the questions Heidi asks in the play is how women can and should support each other as their lives and relationships change. I think being 32, I have a different perspective on those questions." You read it in a much more personal way than you might have in your 20s. "It's different when you read it knowing that you're doing to do it," she said. She had long been familiar with Wasserstein's play, but, she said, it carries a different meaning for her at this point in her life. Now what does it mean if you don't want it all? What does it mean if you just want to work? What does it mean if you want to be a wife? What does it mean if you want to be a mom, and that's all you want to do?"Īlong with the opportunity to "have it all" comes a pressure to "do it all," Moss said, adding, "I think that there's a certain backlash in a way, and a pressure that women feel because we got it all and now we've got to do it." The Heidi Chronicles marks a return to Broadway for Moss, who made her Main Stem debut in 2008, playing Karen in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. That's funny because that's what we sort of fought for in the early days - to have it all. I think the question of what it is to have it all is changing. When asked for her thoughts on the subject, Moss, a Golden Globe winner and four-time Emmy nominee, quickly answered yes, saying, "I think they can. Moss with co-stars Jason Biggs and Bryce Pinkham
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