has revealed that she felt like an “imposter” filming scenes in which she pretended to give before she’d experienced it in real life. The actor said she had given birth “four times on screen” before ever doing it herself. “Our job is to pretend as an actor, but every time I had to give birth, I said to every woman on set, ‘I’m sorry,’” she told in an interview.
“I felt like such an imposter.” The and star married fellow actor , 47, in 2017 and gave birth to their first child, a son, in 2021. Vikander, 35, confirmed in the same interview that the pair had welcomed a second baby earlier this year.
“All women have such different experiences, and going through it a second time was definitely harder for me,” she said of the birth. “But I think training made it easier. Going through those nine months is like a marathon, so it does help if you’re strong going into it.
It’s so physically demanding, and I have so much admiration for any woman who has done it.” Despite being very private about her personal life, the Oscar-winner told in 2022 that she and Fassbender had gone through an before becoming parents for the first time. “We have a child now, but it took us time,” she said.
“[The miscarriage] was so extreme, painful to go through and, of course, it made me recall making that film,” she added, referencing , a movie that the pair had starred in, in which the central couple suffer several miscarriages. Of finally becoming a mother, Vikand.