Maggie Gyllenhaal wants to be like Emma Thompson.

Maggie Gyllenhaal – who recently starred alongside Emma Thompson in ‘Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang’ - wants to turn out just like her because the 50-year-old Oscar-winner gave her great advice on how to cope with being a working mother.

Maggie - who has a three-year-old daughter Ramona with her husband Peter Sarsgaard - said: "I want to be her when I grow up. Emma was the one who said to me - when I was a newlywed, I had no nanny and I was working on this movie. She said, 'You have to let yourself drop the ball. Human beings do that. If you don't, some really important part of you won't survive.' She wrote it to me in a text. I think about it all the time.”