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Academy Award-winning actress Anna Paquin has had a couple of “difficult” years. She has been dealing with health issues that caused her to have mobility issues due to an undisclosed illness, People reported.
She recently appeared on the red carpet with husband Stephen Moyer for their latest movie, A Bit of Light. The actress was using a cane.
Paquin, who was born in Canada and raised in New Zealand told People that it hasn't been easy. She has been experiencing speech difficulties. The entertainment site's source said that their is hope she would make a full recovery.
The actress said she has been fortunate that she's still able to do what she loves.
“My first love was independent filmmaking,” she stated. Paquin is the second youngest Oscar winner, who received the statuette when she was 11 for best supporting actress for the 1993 film The Piano.
“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,” she continued.
The actress is on her road to recovery. She stated that she's thankful that she has her husband's support, who is also the director of the film, based on Rebecca Callard's stage play of the same name.
“He's my favorite person to play with,” Paquin said about Meyer. She added that she wouldn't have agreed to star in the movie if he wasn't an excellent director.
“I'm not sentimental when it comes to work,” the actress continued.
In the film, Paquin plays Ella, an alcoholic mother. She loses custody of her children. As she recovers and picks up the pieces of her life, she also has to reconcile with her past.
The actress said she couldn't relate with the Ella's story, but did connect with her as a mother. She noted that parenthood is a complicated matter, and people seem to forget that women are also people even as they become mothers.
Paquin said, “Not everyone ends up having the journey with motherhood that they have hoped or planned.”
“Ella is kind of some level repeating some sort of familial patterns as far as stuffing feelings down,” she continued.
The actresses continued, “It's very relatable because there's so many ways that people can get in their own way, or sort of learn to cope with trauma.”
Paquin famously played Rogue in 2000's X-Men. She continued to play the mutant in the sequels 2003's X-2 and 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand. She most recently reprised that role in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. Her other famous role was Sookie Stackhouse in HBO Southern vampire series True Blood which ran for seven seasons. The actress met her husband there who played her vampire lover Bill Compton.
A Bit of Light will be released in cinemas on April 5, Friday.
