Kate Beckinsale knew she was going to have a baby one day with her boyfriend, Welsh actor Michael Sheen. She just didn't know it was going to be right after she made "Brokedown Palace," which was released in 1999.
"But it was perfect timing in hindsight," Beckinsale tells Details magazine in its April issue. "A lot of the things that I found difficult in life were sort of annihilated instantly as soon as I had the baby."
"Taking yourself out of the equation, particularly for actors, is very healthy," the 27-year-old English actress says. "You don't have those midnight conversations with yourself anymore about things that aren't important because you are dealing with the most important thing in the world."
Now, her daughter Lily is 2, and Beckinsale is about to appear in two big movies: "The Golden Bowl" that opens in April and "Pearl Harbor," the Disney epic opening in May.