LAURA LINNEY HAS NIGHTMARE IN BABYSITTING

The Nanny Diaries star Laura Linney who plays a rich mother with several nannies recalls her own babysitting experience.

Laura Linney stars in The Nanny Diaries as the abominable Mrs. X who goes through nannies like Prada bags including Scarlett Johansson who becomes next in line to care for her son.

Laura never had a nanny but recalls her own nightmarish adventure in babysitting.

“I was not a very good babysitter. I think it was because I was traumatized early on and then I was just too scared to do it again. But there was a couple in the building that I lived in and I baby sat their very unusually large four year-old child. He was a little like a Mack truck, big kid, really big.”

Laura did her best contending with the oversized brat. Good thing her mother came to the rescue.

“So these parents went off to have dinner and this kid just beat me to a pulp. I mean I was slapped, I was kicked, I was spit on and then he just started to scream like crazy. And they had just had their carpets cleaned and I was allergic to the carpet cleaner. So I called my mother and I was like, ‘I don’t know what to do!’ So she came down and she basically took care of the kid and I gave her the $12 the next day because she earned it and I didn’t. That sort of scared me off for a while.”

Against her better nature, Laura is still feeling guilty about having to yank along the sweet eight year-old actor Nicholas Art who plays her son in the film. The Nanny Diaries is currently playing in theaters.