Returning to a full-time job isn't an easy decision for any mom to make. So when Brothers & Sisters executive producer and director Ken Olin approached her, Calista Flockhart had many, many questions.
"She loved the script," Olin tells PEOPLE, "but then she'd go, 'What is the schedule going to be? And what are the expectations?'"
Away from the cameras, she settled into a new life with Harrison Ford, 64, whom she met at the Golden Globes in 2002, and her now 5-year-old son Liam. But after being a stay-at-home mom for the better part of four years, Flockhart liked the idea of going back to work. "I love being a mom, but as any mother will tell you, if you stay home with a (toddler) 24/7, you get mush brain," Flockhart said. "You start wishing you were working. Then when you're working, you’re wishing that you’re home. It's a tough dilemma."
Flockhart still finds time for the things she loves: cooking at her and Ford's L.A. home, taking piano lessons, reading (she's currently into Fiasco, a critique of the Iraq war by Washington Post correspondent Thomas Ricks) and spending a lot of time outdoors with her son. And when she’s stuck on-set for those long days of shooting, Flockhart gets a piece of home delivered to her when Ford comes to visit. "He and Calista are fantastic together," says Dave Annable, who plays Flockhart's brother Justin on the show.
Source: PEOPLE
