Lizzy Caplan.Photo: Roy Rochlin/WireImage
Lizzy Caplansays family is everything.
TheFatal Attractionstar told PEOPLE at theFleishman Is in TroubleFYC event in Hollywood on Tuesday that priorities in her life have shifted throughout her several years acting.
“My whole life is different than it was 15 years ago — all vast improvements,” said Caplan, 40. “While I appreciate that time, I’m also very happy to be in this new chapter, [where] my priorities are set.”
Caplan added, “There are definitely benefits to getting older, as well as the shock and fear that comes along with it.”
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Lizzy Caplan and Tom Riley in 2017.David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images
She said that many of the actors inFleishman Is in Trouble— which follows a 41-year-old divorced father of two who dives into the brave newworld of internet dating—are at similar points in their lives, which she believes helped benefit the show.
“Personally, we’ve all been doing this for so long that we have the exact same point of view about how to do this, which is everybody takes the work extremely seriously, but it’s right sized within our larger lives,” Caplan said.
“We’re all married, we all have kids,” she explained. “And so getting to do a show that’s examining all of that with people who are just pros, really, it was a dream.”
In November 2022, theMean Girlsactress opened up toGrazia USAabout the joy she has found since welcoming her son.
“There are moments where you’re just watching this little person do a thing and you’re just beaming at him and you don’t even realize you’re beaming until maybe you see a picture of yourself watching him do this thing and you realize, ‘Oh my, I’m smiling so much right now,’ " Caplan said. “I was smiling without being totally aware that I’m smiling —it’s like this unrivaled pure joy.”
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Caplan and Riley, 42, first stepped out on thered carpettogether at the Prague Opera Ball in February 2016, a year after they met in January 2015 while Caplan was filming in London. They then got engaged in May 2016 andtied the knota year later.
And the actress toldGrazia USAshe doesn’t regret the pair’s decision towait to have children.
“We got a lot of life in before we had a kid, so we were both very ready to do this,” she said, praising her husband as the “father of the century.”
“And it’s just so much more mind-blowing and better than you could imagine before actually going through with it,” she continued. “That’s been our experience.”
Fleishman Is in Troubleis streaming on Hulu.
source: people.com
