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Anna Paquin Hits Red Carpet With Help Of A Cane Amid Mystery Illness
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Oscar winner Anna Paquin hit the red carpet Wednesday with the help of a cane as she recovers from an undisclosed illness that causes mobility issues.
Paquin, 41, appeared at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York City Wednesday night with husband Stephen Moyer, 54, to promote their new film, A Bit Of Light.
The pair, who met and married while filming the HBO series True Blood, worked on the film together, with Moyer directing and Paquin starring.
It hasn’t been easy, Paquin told People of the mystery illness she’s battled for two years, which has caused difficulty with speech as well. People reports that the actress will hopefully make a full recovery.
Speaking about her new movie, Paquin expressed her love for indie filmmaking.
My first love was independent filmmaking, said Paquin, whose first role at age nine was in The Piano, for which she won an Oscar. That’s how I entered the film industry. I was working with people who were all about telling stories and telling them with integrity and truth.
In A Bit of Light, which is based on a stage play, Paquin portrays Ella, an alcoholic mother who loses custody of her children. As a mother herself, Paquin said that people often forget that mothers are complex, full humans.
Not everyone ends up having the journey with motherhood that they have hoped or had planned, Paquin told People. We’re all flawed and imperfect, and Ella is kind of on some level repeating some sort of familial patterns as far as stuffing feelings down.
Despite not relating to Ella’s alcoholism, Paquin said the character is very relatable because there’s so many ways that people can get in their own way, or sort of learn to cope with trauma.
She also praised Moyer’s direction.
He’s my favorite person to play with, she said, noting that she wouldn’t have worked with him if he weren’t a good director. I’m not sentimental when it comes to work.
TMX contributed to this article.
