She looks around the 1950s diner. \u201cI love the booths, I love the atmosphere, and\u2026\u201d she smiles, pointing at portraits of stacks of salt beef and rye, \u201cI love the pictures of the sandwiches.\u201d It\u2019s a surprise, perhaps, that such Hollywood royalty can sit at a booth in an unassuming deli without anyone bothering her.<\/p>\n
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For almost 30 years, Bening \u2013 a four-time Oscar nominee, a Bafta winner for\u00a0American Beauty<\/em>\u00a0and twice a Golden Globe recipient (for\u00a0Being Julia<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Kids Are All Right<\/em>) \u2013 has been bending ideas of family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a familiar dynamic to me \u2013 playing people\u2019s mums,\u201d she says. The strength of her leading ladies could have something to do with the amount of practice she\u2019s had in real life. Despite her celebrity status, behind closed doors Bening has kept it traditional, even while married to Hollywood ladykiller\u00a0Warren Beatty. The pair have four children together, the youngest born when Bening was 42. Their relationship began on the set of\u00a0Bugsy<\/em>\u00a0in 1991. \u201cThat changed my life,\u201d she says. They had a child the following year. The story goes that Beatty promised Bening he wouldn\u2019t ask her out until they\u2019d wrapped shooting. \u201cThat\u2019s not true at all!\u201d she says. \u201cThis seems to be a new thing of his, but it\u2019s so not what happened. We were both single and it wasn\u2019t like we were doing anything wrong. Though we did hide it.\u201d<\/p>\n
They still do. Contrary to their blockbuster status, the couple are private. You won\u2019t find Bening on social media. \u201cNo! Nu-huh,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s easier for me. But I feel for other people who have to be on there.\u201d Privacy acts as a safeguard against certain conversations. A self-identified feminist, Bening argues that women are never assessed for their work alone. \u201cWomen in showbusiness have to deal with people talking to us about our children. Men generally don\u2019t.\u201d She doesn\u2019t feel a sense of having compromised her career for family life. When Beatty and Bening did\u00a0Love Affair<\/em>\u00a0together, they were trying for their second child.<\/p>\n
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She looks around the 1950s diner. \u201cI love the booths, I love the atmosphere, and\u2026\u201d she smiles, pointing at portraits of stacks of salt beef and rye, \u201cI love the pictures of the sandwiches.\u201d It\u2019s a surprise, perhaps, that such Hollywood royalty can sit at a booth in an unassuming…<\/p>\n