Michelle Williams on Juggling a Career and Being a Mom

— -- Michelle Williams has come a long way since her days as Jen on “Dawson's Creek.” In an interview for ELLE UK's April issue, the actress, 34, discussed the challenges of playing mom to 8-year-old Matilda while juggling a career.

"You truly never know what’s going to happen," she told the magazine of acting on Broadway. "And to have things go wrong, or to make mistakes in real-time and then be able to assimilate whatever is different is a tremendous feeling.

“To find in those moments that one doesn’t stop, or perish, or run away, but that you can rely on yourself to process things and keep going."

"I feel like I’m so good at raising a kid when I’m not working," she said of the daughter born to her and her late boyfriend, Heath Ledger, who died in 2008.

"I don’t forget anything. I’ve got everything covered. It’s a real luxury to have a moment when I’m not scrambling. I feel like most of my life, I’m trying to do two things at once, both to the best of my abilities."

Williams' new film, “Suite Français,” is set to be released this month.