Maya Rudolph Recalls Commuting from L.A. to N.Y.C. with Her Baby Daughter When Working on“ SNL”: 'It Was Crazy'

The actress shares her four kids with her director husband Paul Thomas Anderson

Maya Rudolph is looking back on a stressful time in her life.

While speaking with Town & Country for their May cover story, the actress, 51, recalled deciding to move her family from New York City, where she was currently starring on Saturday Night Live, to Los Angeles. Rudolph shares her four kids — Pearl, 18, Lucille, 14, Jack, 12, and Minnie, 10 — with her director husband Paul Thomas Anderson.

"I thought, 'This is all going great!'" Rudolph remembered of welcoming her first baby. "I'd always wanted to have kids. I'd always wanted to live in New York. I'd always wanted to be on Saturday Night Live."

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Shortly after having daughter Pearl, Anderson wanted to move their family to Los Angeles. Rudolph recalled commuting from Los Angeles to New York City for a while to film SNL, occasionally bringing her daughter along.

"This little bald baby, listening to the musical guests warm up. I look back and I can't believe I did that," she admitted. "It was crazy. I don't think I slept for two years."

In June 2022, Rudolph appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers and spoke about working with her kids on her husband Anderson's film Licorice Pizza.

"That was actually a magical thing, because COVID happened, lockdown happened and then Paul was told like, 'Okay, you can shoot now.' "

"But my kids were not allowed to go back to school," she continued. "So we were doing Zoom school and it was a scary time, no one was vaccinated. And it provided this amazing experience where my kids, their friends, their friends' parents, my parents, my nanny — we were all in it. We were all around and so we had a little world. Like we were living in the 1970s in San Fernando Valley for like three months. It was beautiful."

In 2020, Rudolph shared with PEOPLE that her kids already had a love for performing. "We have a lot of living room shows," she said of her family, "but I'm usually told to sit down and watch!"

"They'll dance to anything," she says of her brood, "They're natural hams."

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