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Gretchen Mol.
(Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)Gretchen Mol opens up about her life after being the “It Girl” of the 90s.
“There are always new fresh faces in Hollywood,” says 52-year-old Mol People in an interview published on Saturday, January 4. “It’s a constant wheel that turns over. And it’s a business that loves youth — that’s a reality there, but that’s okay.
Mol is perhaps best known for her role as Gillian in HBO’s Boardwalk Empirebut she has also starred in films like Rounders, The Notorious Bettie Page, 3:10 to Yuma a Manchester by the Sea.
“I think getting older as an actor frees you. You have more wisdom, more moments where you’ve been up and down, and the stakes aren’t as high,” Mol told the outlet. “Your jobs become more about the fun and the process of creating, rather than what people are going to think about the result or say about you.”
Mol’s career has slowed down since she was called the “It Girl” by Vanity fair in 1998. She moved from New York City to the Berkshires during the COVID-19 pandemic, choosing to stay there with her husband Todd Williams to raise their two teenage children: 17-year-old son Ptolemy and 14-year-old daughter Winter.
“We still go to the city when we need to, but the children go to school locally,” said Mol People. “It’s such a lovely little community that we found here. Most people, I know what they do for a living, they know what I do. And it’s nice to be with them, to know everyone’s names. They are very good people.”
According to Mol, her children are less than interested in her past career successes. “Vanity fairspecifically, meaning something in a way that if I tried to explain to my kids, they’d be just like, ‘What?’” she explained.
Mol is currently starring Ed Burns‘ an upcoming film, Millers in Marriagewhich follows a once cool rock star navigating her second act as she deals with a failing marriage.
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“It’s conversations I have with friends,” she said of the script, which was relevant to her in terms of a period of life where your children don’t demand as much of your attention as they did before.
“I was lucky that I was still working while raising children, but my priorities changed,” continued Mol. “But now I have more time to think about those efforts I always wanted to do.”
