Katherine Waterston was “ashamed” of playing a mother

Katherine Waterston felt embarrassed playing a mother before becoming one herself.

The 44-year-old actress admitted she felt “a lot of regret and shame” about playing a mother on screen.

Katherine – who gave birth to a baby boy in 2019 – told The Independent: “I felt a lot of regret and shame that I had represented mothers before I became one.

“I had been too nonchalant. I never treated it the way I do with this job, like thinking, ‘OK, I’m playing a CIA agent, I have a lot of research to do .I didn’t treat motherhood that way.

“I said to myself, ‘I have a mother. I’ve been watching her for a long time.’ I had friends and a sister who were mothers, so I figured I sort of “got it” by osmosis.”

Katherine would now love to reshoot her scenes in “Steve Jobs,” the 2015 biographical drama film.

She shared, “My character in that movie had a palpable undercurrent of rage because of the way she was treated. Now? I feel like I didn’t play it hard enough at all.

“If my heat didn’t work and the man who denied paternity to my child made millions… I mean, let me blame him! You feel like an animal when you become a parent. It’s is shocking.”

Despite this, Katherine believes the film industry has improved over the past 15 years.

The actress explained: “There’s still a long way to go, but I’ve had a lot of very happy experiences where I didn’t feel like I was getting the short end of the stick because I was a woman. And that has changed a lot over the last 15 years.