Amy Adams is putting motherhood in a whole new light.
PEOPLE has an exclusive clip from the opening scene of Nightbitch, in which the actress, 50, regales an old acquaintance (played by Adrienne Rose White) at a grocery store with the brutally honest downsides of becoming a new mom.
As a character named only Mother, Adams admits that staying at home with her young son is “complicated” before embarking on an increasingly tense stream of consciousness.
“I would love to feel content. But instead I feel like I’m just stuck inside of a prison of my own creation where I torment myself until I’m left binge-eating Fig Newtons at midnight to keep from crying,” she says.
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