Diane Kruger Talks Playing Postpartum Anxiety in 'Little Disasters'

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “ Little Disasters ,” now streaming on Paramount+.

Over the past year, a cinematic trend has emerged that powerfully underscores the intense difficulties of motherhood. From “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and “Sinners” to “One Battle After Another” and “Song Sung Blue,” the challenges of being a joy-filled parent can rapidly intensify to an unbearable — and even a maddening — need to be a “perfect” mother. That plight is now being tackled on television in the limited series “Little Disasters” starring Diane Kruger . The six-episode series on Paramount+ illustrates the profound lengths a woman will go to protect her child while simultaneously enduring a significant emotional toll on herself, her marriage and her other children. Krug