The 50-year-old actress, who was diagnosed with MS while filming the third season of the Netflix show, also admits in a new interview that filming the final season was 'as hard as you would possibly think it would be.'
- Nov 14, 2022
AceShowbiz - Christina Applegate has opened up about the future of her acting career. When sitting down with Variety, the actress claimed her role on "Dead to Me" may be the last one she will play due to her battle with multiple sclerosis.
"Jen Harding is the one, who - who knows, quite possibly the last one I'll play," the 50-year-old, who was diagnosed with MS while filming the third season of the Netflix show, shared. "With my disease, I don't know how capable I am."
Noting that filming the final season was "as hard as you would possibly think it would be," Christina said she's now "finding what I'm capable of doing." She added, "I'm so new in this right now. It takes time to kind of figure out this disease, and figure out what's bringing on symptoms. I'm just a newbie to all of this."
"So I'm trying to figure it out," the mom of one further stressed." "And I'm also in mourning for the person who I was. I have to find a place that's as loving as my set was, where they won't think I'm a diva by saying, 'Hey, I can only work five hours.' "
Christina also stated that she's seeking "a place that will allow me to do that if I'm not the star," and that starring in something might be off the table in the future. "There's no way I could do the work that I just came off again. I mean, it was so hard," she said.
The "Married... with Children" alum could find the silver lining thought. She said she's been focusing on her family, especially her and Martyn LeNoble's daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble. "I love being here for her 100% all the time - to take her to school, to pick her up from school, to be here for her homework, to make her dinner, to be here when she needs me," she elaborated. "That's kind of what I missed out on for a while. And she's very happy to have me here."
While Applegate is now "tired all the time," she admitted that she's "getting stronger," having come off six straight days of a Peloton workout at the time of her latest interview. As long as she gets bored with being inside, she said there's a chance fans can see her name on screen in more ways than one.
"I'm pretty convinced that this was it, you know? But who knows - I'm probably gonna get real bored of being in my room. I'd like to develop stuff, I'd like to produce stuff," she said. "I've got a lot of ideas in my mind, and I just need to get them executed."
