According to Marisa Tomei, she “really regrets” having been “talked into” portraying herself in just “mother role” in movies.

In a candid interview with Collider, the Academy Award-winning actress discussed taking on maternal roles, like the one she has in the upcoming Amazon film “The King of Staten Island,” which also stars comedian Pete Davidson.

When questioned about the change, Tomei states that she “really regrets starting down this road.”

“I really regret starting down this road and I really regret starting to do that,” Tomei said. “I was, you know, talked into it — not [‘King of Staten Island’], but I mean just that change — and I really always felt like, ‘Oh, I could play a lot of things.’ Honestly, [playing a mom is] probably more of a stretch than other things. But, it’s — yeah, I guess I said it all.”

“I think every actor and actress has a lot of dimensions to them and if the scope of what is being written and being made is narrow, and you want to keep working, you do what you can,” she continued. “I mean, I do. I tried it. It was maybe not the right road, but you know, I do try to make the most of it.”

In 1992’s My Cousin Vinny, Marisa won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a wise-cracking Italian girlfriend who also happened to be a car expert. Since then, Marisa has taken on a surprising variety of roles and received two further Academy Award nominations.

In the most recent Spider-Man movies, Tomei’s career path has brought her into the role of Aunt May opposite Tom Holland’s Peter Parker.

The Wrestler, The Lincoln Lawyer, Crazy, Stupid, Love, What Women Want, and Anger Management are just a few of the movies she has acted in. She also co-starred in the 1994 picture Only You with Robert Downey Jr.

But Tomei made it obvious that she was pleased to be portraying a mother in her most recent Judd Apatow movie.

She remarked, “I love this movie and I’m happy to be in this. It’s basically the key relationship. It’s really the mom and the son who are left with each other, and Judd gives a lot of real estate to that relationship and to the nuance of that dynamic in a family, which is very unusual to have this kind of part be a central part.”

The What Women Want actor believes there are countless opportunities when asked what parts she’d still want to do.

‘I mean, even genres that I would love to be in, you know? The femme fatale, and in a noir. I still think there are other aspects of even romantic comedies. I really love them, but you know really at a screwball level. There’s so many, many — the breadth of as much as women are, there’s so many roles.’

“Sometimes when it’s like the heart of the movie, you hear that a lot, it can kind of sometimes mean, ‘Thanks a lot, we won’t pay you.'”

“The King of Staten Island” debuts on VOD this Friday, June 12.