Tilda Swinton has said that films usually present a romanticised portrayal of childbirth.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival press conference for We Need To Talk About Kevin, the 50-year-old mother of twins compared movie versions of childbirth to reality.
Swinton said: "In the movies when people have babies, particularly in television films, when they're in a hospital room - there's flowers everywhere and they're all powdered and made-up magically.
"They have baby and it's all really lovely and they start getting pink baby clothes and it's all just flowers. Anyone who has been in that zone - even I'd suggest anyone who's been to visit someone who's in that zone - will know that that is fiction."
She added: "It's a truly, truly murderous business, giving birth, and it's violent. It's a violent place to go.
"If one can't embrace that - and it's really hard to embrace that - then you're up a gum tree, because your'e cutting off a part of yourself."
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