Jennifer Connelly Will Not Join Celebrity Adoption Club

Posted on: January 24, 2007

Jennifer Connelly does the unthinkable. She considers the needs and feelings of her biological children in making a decision to adopt an African child. Jennifer says that she and husband Paul Bettany have “absolutely considered adopting” but that her older son from her first marriage would have found it disruptive.

“He’s had a lot of change so of course I really have to be sensitive to him,” she said. “One of the kids I became close to was older than him. What would that mean to my family? Would my son feel displaced, all of a sudden having an older sibling who didn’t speak the language and would need so much more time and attention? These are all concerns of mine and reasons why I didn’t come home with a child even though, believe me, I would call Paul at night when he was away. I’d say, ‘There’s this baby and I don’t know what to do and I love him so much and if I leave here he might die.’”

She hasn’t, however, ruled out the possibility of an adoption. “It’s complicated, but we are still considering.” See kids, not all celebrities are idiots.

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Jennifer Connelly and Joaquin Phoenix On Set

Posted on: October 25, 2006

A bearded Joaquin Phoenix and a crying Jennifer Connelly filming scenes from the movie Reservation Road. Filmstalker.com gives this description of the movie:

“It’s about a college professor whose 10 year old son is killed in a hit and run accident, who then goes on a desperate search for the driver of the car. In the other corner is the driver, a self loathing, deeply damaged man who’s torn between turning himself in for the crime and saving his own hide.”

At first glance, I thought the creepy little girl in these pictures was Dakota Fanning, but it turns out to be her baby sister, Elle.