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Rachel Wood had many reasons to relocate from Los Angeles
to Nashville, but one stood out among the rest: her son.
“LA is
wonderful, and it has given me so many amazing things, but I’ve also got a lot
of demons here. I was ready to break it up a little bit,” the “Westworld”
actress explained in the May issue of ELLE Canada.
“I wanted to
give my kid some grass to run around on. Again, he’s got two actor parents. I
was like, ‘You don’t need to live in LA full-time. Let’s go somewhere a little
‘normal’ for a bit.'"
Wood, who
shares her 3-year-old son with ex-husband Jamie
Bell, grew up in North Carolina. When the interviewer noted the
traditional nature of the South, Wood said, “That’s how I was raised too. But
it’s not all like that. I am in a more progressive city.”
The
29-year-old continued, “But there’s a part of me that also believes in going
where you’re needed. And if I can be there, bringing something else to the
table or engaging the conversation or speaking up when I need to speak up, then
that’s also important. I don’t want to run scared.”
Following
November’s presidential election, the relatively private Wood revealed she had been raped twice. In her new
interview with ELLE, she addressed the stigma out there surrounding the
idea of feminism.
“Some think
that feminism is all about hating men, and they hate you for that. I love men.
I have a son — I actually want a world where we can all be equal and I’m not
held back because of my gender,” she said. “It’s not a movement against men! It
sucks that the word ‘feminism’ is so tainted. Also, I’m in the LGBT community
[Wood identifies as bisexual], and you’re told a lot that you’re going to hell
and you’re a terrible person. People think that it’s a movement and we’re
trying to destroy society. It’s intense.”
Wood confirmed her engagement to bandmate
Zach Villa in late January.
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