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Motherhood Quote by Eva Green

"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?"

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Eva Green’s anxiety here isn’t prudishness; it’s about control. She’s describing the uniquely modern terror of being seen in two incompatible roles at once: the dutiful daughter and the eroticized performer. The bluntness of “She’s going to see me naked” lands like a dare, but the real sting is in “she’s quite hard.” Green isn’t worried about strangers. She’s worried about the home audience, the one that trained her sense of approval and shame long before any director did.

The quote catches a cultural tripwire: nudity on screen is often framed as “bravery” or “art,” yet the private fallout is rarely glamorous. Green’s language keeps slipping between professional and personal registers - “my performance” sits next to “my mother,” “my Dad, woah” - as if she can’t fully separate the craft from the family’s gaze. That “woah” is doing heavy lifting: a flash of humor, panic, and resignation, acknowledging the weirdness without pretending it’s profound.

The kicker is “they’re going to see me like a woman.” Not “as an actress,” not “as a character,” but as a newly legible adult body in her parents’ eyes. She’s naming the moment when sexuality stops being theoretical and becomes public record. The subtext is less about nudity than about a one-way door: once your parents can’t unsee you, you can’t un-become the person the world has watched you be.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Green, Eva. (2026, January 15). I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-worried-because-of-my-mother-shes-going-to-see-150613/

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Green, Eva. "I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-worried-because-of-my-mother-shes-going-to-see-150613/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-worried-because-of-my-mother-shes-going-to-see-150613/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Eva Green

Eva Green (born July 6, 1980) is a Actress from France.

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