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27/11/2013

Thandie Newton Discusses Pregnancy

Thandie Newton has said filming her new television show while pregnant is "mayhem".

The 41-year-old is currently six months pregnant with her third child, but refused to quit her role in the drama series 'Rogue' because of it. However, in her latest column for Stylist magazine, the British actress has admitted the decision has proved to be difficult at times.

She wrote: "Basically, I had two options; to withdraw from the show which would have meant the show collapsing, or to commit regardless.

"I'd seen actresses take on meaty un-pregnant roles while carrying babies – Jodie Foster in The Panic Room. My agent also reassured me that both Claire Danes and Anna Paquin into their first pregnancies. So – it was all going to work out just fine wasn't it?"

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She added: "We're on episode nine, and are near enough to finishing for me to be able to chuckle at my naivety in thinking this was going to be anything other than mayhem, with a waddling lead actress at the centre."

Newton has also had to struggle with nausea, fatigue, cravings and mood swings while on the set, but insisted it hasn't all been a bad experience.

"Even though this experience has been more challenging that any other job, there have been surprising insights that'll stay in my armoury long after this little bundle is making his/her own hit TV shows.

"I'm more alive to the present, more in tune. 'I'm growing a baby – beat that!' That's the underlying attitude that's rescued me from the grind of a sometime 13 hour day schedule."

Newton and her writer-husband, Ol Parker, are already parents to two daughters, Ripley, 13, and eight-year-old Nico.

(JP/CD)

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"Thandie Newton has said filming her new television show while pregnant is "mayhem"."