Teyana Taylor opens up about her own experience with postpartum depression, which came in handy for her role in One battle after another.
Teyana had to “go down a rabbit hole” to understand how people experience postpartum depression differently.
The actress and singer, who shares two daughters Rue, 5, and Iman “Junie” Tayla, 10, with ex Iman Shumpert, plays black revolutionary Perfidia, the former leader of the radical group the French 75.
Perfidia has an affair with both Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn) and welcomes a daughter with the former.
“How I might have dealt with my postpartum depression is not how the next woman will deal with hers,” Taylor, 35, said. People.
“So going into this topic, it was now understanding: I have to go down a rabbit hole and see the different things of what happens to us when we’re dealing with this, and step outside of myself and see what happens to me,” she explained.
Taylor understood that the way Perfidia dealt with her postpartum depression experience was “the result of feeling unheard, unseen, not beautiful, and like a piece of meat.”
“It resulted [in] to feel her[ing] like, ‘Okay, I have to be selfish and stand up for myself even if it means leaving my own child behind,'” said the Everything is fair star. “But who are we to judge how she deals with postpartum depression after being ignored?”
