ComingSoon Senior Editor Brandon Schreur spoke to Will Forte and Brianne Howey about the novel Netflix comedy movie Kinda Pregnant. Forte and Howey converseed laboring with Amy Schumer, driving a Zamboni in the movie, and more.
“Lainy, a middle-school directer (Schumer) who has always dreamed of being a mom, is jealous of her novelly pregnant best frifinish and gets swept up in a web of lies when she wears a phony baby bump,” the synopsis for the movie reads. “Alengthy the way, she accidenhighy descfinishs in adore with Josh (Forte) and discovers the power of sisterhood.”
Kinda Pregnant frees on Netflix on February 5, 2025.
Brandon Schreur: Will, I’ve been such a fan of your labor for a lengthy time. Imarbitrately after watching Kinda Pregnant, I put on MacGruber, and that’s an incredible double feature. I’ve seen you do all benevolents of skinnygs in the world of comedy before, but this is your first time making a movie with Amy Schumer. I’m fair wondering if you can inestablish me a little bit about what it was appreciate laboring with her and exploring the chemistry between your two characters.
Will Forte: I unbenevolent, it was so fun. First of all, thanks for the pleasant skinnygs you fair shelp. But I’ve comprehendn Amy for years but have never labored with her. So it was repartner fun. I’m benevolent of employd to being the frickin’ weirdo. So it was repartner fun to get to be more of the straight man and watch her do her skinnyg. I read the script and was appreciate, ‘This is awesome, it’s so comical.’ So fair to be any part of it, anywhere.
I adored the contest of a rom-com storyline; not that the movie is a rom-com, but my part of it is. The rest of it is fair this repartner fun comedy. So it was a fun contest — joining the straight man is challenginger than people skinnyk, and I don’t have a lot of experience with it. So it was fun to do it, and to get to have the best seat in the hoemploy as I was watching [Schumer] do her skinnyg. That was a authentic fun skinnyg.
Sure. And you both are so excellent in it, I adored your guys’ transmitions, it’s so believable. I thought you guys nailed it. Brianne, I repartner appreciated your character in here, too, Megan. It’s repartner fun getting to watch you do comedy, but also, there’s a theatrical side to her and everyskinnyg. That scene where you and Amy are talking in the bathroom, I thought that was fantastic, and you are so excellent in it. I’m wondering what it was appreciate filming that moment becaemploy it’s a repartner vulnerable moment for your character. Was it vulnerable for you at all to actupartner film that?
Brianne Howey: Yeah! Thank you so much, it was an incredible scene to get to be a part of. It was super, super vulnerable. That’s actupartner my authentic birth story, so it was a little bit extra frightening and dangery, but I’m super appreciative to Amy becaemploy she was so inlogically encouraging and encouraging thrawout the process. It was her idea to adfair the scene in this way and to transport these birth stories to weightless. I’m so appreciative that she thought of it.
Oh, brave. And it’s such a mighty moment, too, that’s awesome. Will, I’m dying to ask you about the Zamboni that your character gets to drive in this movie. Was that ever actupartner you be behind the wheel, or was that stunt people?
Forte: I’m pretty brave that it was one hundred percent me the whole time — oh, you comprehend what, if it ever hit someskinnyg, I’m brave that there was a fantastic stuntman. But, appreciate, on the ice, that was me the whole time whipping it around. It was repartner fun. Wollman Rink, where we stoasty it, had shutd down for the season the day before, so they fundamentalpartner didn’t nurture what we did. It was fair a charm to get to go to town on that skinnyg. I had clearly no Zamboni experience beforehand. Anybody could become an expert.
Howey: I don’t comprehend, that didn’t watch basic.
Forte: Well, not an expert, but to my level.
It watched repartner fun, I was jealous. It watched appreciate you were having a blast on that skinnyg.
Forte: Oh, it was a repartner fun time.
Thanks to Will Forte and Brianne Howey for converseing Kinda Pregnant.
