In the Bustle interview, Rachel McAdams further elaborated on her decision to take a two-year break, during which she spent time with her family and biked around Toronto. Despite gaining time with her family, the actress still had doubts about her career choice.
McAdams said, "I felt guilty for not capitalizing on the opportunity that I was being given, because I knew I was in such a lucky spot. But I also knew it wasn't quite jiving with my personality and what I needed to stay sane. There were definitely some anxious moments of wondering if I was just throwing it all away, and why was I doing that? It's taken years to understand what I intuitively was doing."
The actress seems to be okay with taking breaks now — after years of working very consistently after "Married Life," McAdams took another two-year break after 2018's "Game Night" and then again after just one more film, 2020's "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga." She returned with 2022's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness." (These breaks also aligned with the birth of her first child in 2018 and her pregnancy of her second child in 2020).
As for her upcoming film, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig was willing to wait for McAdams if the timing had lined up with one of the actor's breaks. Speaking to Bustle, Judy Blume, who wrote the classic book on which the film is based, said, "Kelly knew that Rachel McAdams was the one, and she was willing to wait [for her]."
