Sissy Spacek has said her new TV series Bloodline has reminded her how she used to go and make a film when she needed a break from being a mum.

The Carrie star features in the Netflix series about a family whose wayward adult son returns home, causing repercussions for the rest of them.

Sissy, who plays the mother, said: “Even in easygoing households, the mother is the one we all dump on, that’s just tradition. The most difficult job we have as women is raising a family.

“I used to, if I needed a break, go and make a movie because parenting is difficult and I think it’s hard when you’re still trying to parent adult children. The children in this show are in their forties, it’s not like they’re going through their teenage years.”

Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek (Evan Agostini/Invision)

The actress added that she was enjoying the element of the unknown that comes with making a TV series as opposed to a film.

She said: “I call this ‘the year of not knowing’, because we don’t know where it’s going. It’s frightening but it’s more like real life because you don’t know where real life is going, so there are going to be some surprises. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that it all means something when we’ve finished the season.”

Asked what the biggest risk in her career had been, Sissy replied that it was the film adaptation of the Stephen King book Carrie.

She said: “I remember my parents read the script and went, ‘Sissy, we’re not sure this is such a good idea’, but that terror I felt about it possibly not working was highly motivating.”

Bloodline is available on Netflix now.