It’s a happier domestic scene than the one portrayed in Yasmina Reza’s Tony-nominated comedy, in which Harden, James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels have it out quite literally after their children get into a playground fight.
“Go take a picture of your ballerina while Mommy has a phone call,” she whispers to Julitta, who obeys, chattering as she goes. Speaking from her home in Harlem, the Oscar-winning Broadway star is obviously an experienced juggler, balancing her busy acting career with raising Julitta, twin brother Hudson, and their 10-year-old sister, budding actress Eulala Scheel. Newly minted Tony nominee Marcia Gay Harden is delighted to chat about her hit play, God of Carnage, but first she has to help her five-year-old daughter, Julitta, finish making a ballerina doll.
