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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions with Maggie Gyllenhaal [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions with Maggie Gyllenhaal](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1djs2UkJ.m3u8) (3:13)  _Published 2014-07-31. The actor on how to be human, her issue with Obama and why she won’t talk about the Middle East_ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:04 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Golden Globes 2015: Maggie Gyllenhaal Acceptance Speech](/video/LP3d8fTO/) ### Golden Globes 2015: Maggie Gyllenhaal Acceptance Speech [Maggie Gyllenhaal On the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict](/video/UHe3gpUs/) ### Maggie Gyllenhaal On the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [Maggie Gyllenhaal: On Panic and Performing](/video/aZgNUZ1M/) ### Maggie Gyllenhaal: On Panic and Performing --- ## Transcript Yall knew the series The Honorable Woman is about, well centered on the Israeli Palestian conflict. I want to meet him. It is dangerous. Put your head down! Now I know you're gonna get this question a lot, but do you take a side in that conflict? I feel like. The show I made, the piece of art I made, does articulate really beautifully so many things I feel about the conflict better than I could say in three sentences to you now. And I'm trying to keep my personal politics out of the press about it, at least until people have seen the show. I also feel that this particular conflict, in my opinion, it's very difficult for me to have a hard and fast and moveable position on it. How I feel and how I think shifts all the time. By small degrees. I do believe in compassion, I believe in the possibility of reconciliation. I .. Am hopeful, even in times when it seems impossible. I don't know what else we have and I think the show takes a similar position. I'm from Time magazine so I have to ask. You have said that Obama has broken your heart. Would you like to say why? I really believed in him. And I'm not sure what he believes in anymore. I thought, probably naively, but there's certainly an element of me [ LAUGH ] that is naive. I still, somewhere I, I root for him. I hope for him. One day I think he's gonna come out, and stand for all the things, He promised that he was gonna stand up for, but I, I've feel a little hopeless right now. Was there a little particular decision or event that kinda pushed you over the edge? I feel really disappointed with the way he's handled the NSA stuff, and um, I think- Not aggressive? Not aggressive enough? Not aggressive enough. Nesa sleeps in a. Really crazily secure panic room. Do you? You know, you're a celebrity, got a famous husband. Do you relate to that kind of fear? I relate to panic sometimes. I mean I think one of the things that's happening with Nessa is that she's going from being someone who performs herself all the time. And feels that she has to be extraordinary and remarkable and pushes out the human flawed sides or herself. To somebody who you know. Is actually a human being. Are you saying that that's limited the performative aspects of being an actress? Well look, I think it maybe it's an occupational hazard of being an actor more than other people. But I think that that's something that all human beings can relate to. Performing themselves, thinking they're supposed to be a kind of fantasy of what they imagined they were gonna be when they were 20. You know, and then, like. Look I'm 36. I feel like so much of my 30's has been having to, that performance is just not working anymore. And then so you have two choices. Either like you can slowly die or you can come alive and be in the river and be a human being. 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