Academy Award-winning actress Marissa Tomei spoke out this week to make it clear that she is not happy with the direction her career is heading in.

Tomei told Collider that she regrets taking so many mother roles recently, including in the new movie The King of Staten Island, in which she plays the mother of the character played by Pete Davidson.

“I really regret starting down this road and I really regret starting to do that,” the My Cousin Vinny actress confessed. “I was, you know, talked into it – not [for ‘The King of Staten Island’], but I mean just that change.”

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The 55 year-old star went on to say that she feels she “could play a lot of things,” and that playing a mother is “probably more of a stretch than other things.” Tomei added that she took mother roles simply because that’s what was available, and that she has tried to enjoy it as much as she can.

“I think every actor and actress has a lot of dimensions to them and if the scope of what is being written and being made is narrow, and you want to keep working, you do what you can,” she said. “I mean, I do. I tried it. It was maybe not the right road, but you know, I do try to make the most of it.”

Tomei also said that she isn’t picky when it comes to the genre of films that she works in, and that she’s even open to doing things that she’s done before.

“The femme fatale, and in a noir. I still think there are other aspects of even romantic comedies. I really love them, but you know really at a screwball level,” Tomei said. “There’s so many, many – the breadth of as much as women are, there’s so many roles.”

In The King Of Staten Island, Tomei plays a single mother who lost her husband when her son was just 7 years-old. Her son is now an adult who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, but he can’t seem to make ends meet and is still living at home with her. Tomei’s character finds herself in the difficult position of questioning when it’s time to tell her son to grow up, and make a life of his own.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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