Motherhood Quote by Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver is doing two bits of stagecraft at once here: selling a role and quietly renegotiating the terms of how Hollywood has wanted to use her. The opening - "I wanted to play a mother again" - reads like a simple career note, but it’s also a reminder that motherhood on screen is usually boxed into a narrow age range and emotional register. By specifying "the mother of an older child", she’s pointing at a strangely underexplored zone in mainstream film: women with grown histories, complicated authority, and desires that aren’t organized around nurturing.

Then she pivots to the real charge: the femme fatale. In classic noir, the femme fatale is often punished for her intelligence and appetite, reduced to a cautionary tale in heels. Weaver’s phrasing resists that trap. "Very smart, and wicked" isn’t an apology; it’s an invitation. She’s naming the pleasure of playing a woman whose power is strategic, not merely seductive - a character allowed to be competent and morally sharp-edged without being softened for audience comfort.

The subtext is about range, and about timing. Weaver has spent a career toggling between cultural archetypes (action heroine, scientist, survivor), roles that grant agency but often demand a certain stoicism. This quote signals a hunger for a different kind of authority: maternal, yes, but also predatory, playful, and self-authored. It’s less reinvention than reclamation - of complexity that the industry tends to ration, especially as actresses age.