Uma Thurman: ‘I Often Overdo Things’
UMA Thurman says her mom often refers to her as “Overdo It Uma” — because the actress is on a never-ending quest for perfection!
The Kill Bill star — who has 11-year-old daughter Maya and son Levon, seven, with ex-husband Ethan Hawke — has revealed how she put a ton of pressure on herself to produce the perfect birthday party.
“I get caught up in the birthday party situation,” says Uma, who plays internet blogger and mother-of-two Eliza Welch in upcoming comedy movie Motherhood. “I had a pirate party for my son and I designed this cake myself.
“I drew it on a napkin: There’s a beach and the boat in the water and I had to get it right. And the baker used brown sugar instead of cookie crumbs to make the sand. So I produced this incredible birthday party under this pressure that my life depended on it, that my entire definition as a person depended on it that day.
“I cut the cake up, pass it around, and one boy turns to my son and says, ‘Brown sugar, that’s disgusting!’ And my son, who I’d hyped up with so much effort, just fell apart crying. What the hell are you going to do about it? I try too hard.
“In the end, there’s all the hysteria, the desperate effort, that create an overdoing, so that makes someone else resentful, so that they to turn to a 6-year-old and say, ‘Your cake sucks.’ Of course, I overdid it a bit. As my mother said, my name should be “Overdo It Uma.” I never feel like I’ve done enough.”
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