Mia Goth Says Motherhood Is a ‘Really Psychedelic Experience’ as She Calls Daughter Isabel, 3, the ‘Greatest Gift of My Life’

Mia Goth is sharing how becoming a mother influenced her role in the upcoming Netflix movie Frankenstein.

In a new interview with Elle, the actress, 31, addressed how welcoming her daughter, Isabel, now 3, has helped her take on new roles for her career and reach a different part of her acting. Goth, who star as both Victor Frankenstein’s mother, Claire, and his lover, Elizabeth Lavenza, in director Guillermo del Toro’s film, told the outlet being a mom greatly influenced how she played the characters.

“I wouldn’t want to say that I couldn’t have done this job if I hadn’t been a mother,” Goth said carefully. “But I think becoming a mother informed a lot of my choices, and enriched the process.”

Goth told the outlet she had wanted to be a mother since she was 3 years old. “It’s a really psychedelic experience to have a child. You’re parenting her, but you’re also parenting the version of you that existed when you were that age,” she explained. “The amount of love that you can feel… She’s the greatest gift of my life.”

The star, who shares her daughter with partner Shia LaBeouf, added that her daughter does know that “mummy is an actress.” Goth went on to elaborate on where she wants her relationship with Isabel to go in the future.

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“I really hope to be something steady for her,” she said. “That no matter what happens in her life, she can return to me. No matter what her age — if she’s in a shitty relationship or something’s not going right at work – she can always come home. And she’ll always have a bed to sleep in and a home-cooked meal.”

Earlier this month, the actress spoke with Who What Wear and shared about creating a life outside of the industry. Goth admitted that she is often “quite picky” when it comes to choosing roles since she’ll have to be away from her family.

During the conversation, Goth told the outlet that for her, the key is having an interesting and fulfilling career is “to cultivate a really fulfilling life outside of work so that you’re able to have patience to wait for the right projects to come around.”

“I was always quite picky to begin with, but now even more so,” she said of choosing roles. “It has to make sense on many levels. Oftentimes, you are waking up before she wakes up, and you’re coming home after her bedtime.”

Goth added, “You have to justify it in your head to be away, for it to make sense, to be away from her, to be taken away from her. I feel very lucky that the projects that I’m working on [do] make sense to me.”