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"It's hard, but it's what everyone is doing," the 45-year-old says about working motherhood. While she's chatting, Freundlich calls, checking to see when she'll be home. She puts the phone on silent and keeps going. A car will whisk her back downtown soon enough.
"You do the best you can," she adds. "The thing that's nicest for us is that we have some flexibility. That's the hardest, hardest thing. I see it at the nursery school. Every mother I know talks about that."
Keeping many balls in the air is also a constant theme of the characters she plays, the latest of which, in Freedomland, is a modern mom trying to find out the fate of her missing son. Samuel L. Jackson plays the detective who helps her sort out the details as the case becomes a mess of racial tensions. The role is edgier than others she's had lately ‑- like the distraught mom in The Forgotten and the divorce lawyer in Laws of Attraction ‑- because it's based on the gritty book by Richard Price. But all of her film roles have had a distinct level of emotion even if the settings are more genteel.