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Maggie Gyllenhaal, who co-starred in the immensely successful The Dark Knight last year, is now taking a step in the opposite direction with indie film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes.

In the film, Maggie plays a hippie mother obsessed with back to the basics parenting. The 31–year-old actress, who is raising a 3-year old daughter Ramona with Peter Saarsgard, recently spoke with Parade.com about how she was glad she was a mom herself before taking the part.

On becoming an earth mother: "Shortly before my daughter was born, I had a fantasy that everything was going to be organic and cloth diapers. I think a lot of people are that way. And then, of course, you actually have a child you have to manage in the real world with all the complications that brings. But the woman I play is really far out when it comes to her ideas of parenting. She's still nursing her 4-year-old and the whole family sleeps in bed together. I've never gone that far."

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“She felt drawn to the little girl after he passed,” a friend of 30-year-old Maggie — whose brother Jake is Matilda’s godfather — tells OK!. She wants Michelle to know she’s there to talk to or watch Matilda.”

I can totally picture the two adorable girls playing together, dressing as princesses and having tea parties :)

Source : Ok!

Maggie Gyllenhaal takes her daughter, Ramona Sarsgaard, 1 1/2, for a walk in Brooklyn.

Maggie makes her big screen debut (since the birth of Ramona) in The Dark Knight co-starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Photos: Bauer-Griffin

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