The comedian and star of 'Babes' wants to show the joy she finds in parenthood. Until it’s time to get her toddler out of the house.
, Ilana Glazer explored the intensity of female friendships in your 20s with reverence and absurdity. Now 37 and a mom of a 2-and-a-half-year-old girl, she has unleashed her raunchy-but-sweet comedic energy on motherhood and what happens to those intense female friendships when everybody starts getting pregnant. The experience inspired a new hour of stand-up as well asout May 17, directed by Pamela Adlon and co-written by Glazer.
At the very end of the film, your character has just had her baby, and she says something like “I can’t believe we don’t talk about this every day. I can’t believe this isn’t on the news: Babies coming out of vaginas.” Is that how you felt when you had your daughter?I feel so disillusioned these days with where the world’s at, and it helps me to remember that this is not how things have to be.
Thank you! I wrote this movie with Josh Rabinowitz, but our manager and quarterback producer, Susie Fox, was the one who came to us with the idea. Josh’s wife and I were pregnant at the same time, and Susie had a 2- and a 4-year-old. And with all the stuff that we kept splashing down in our brainstorm, this funny pregnancy thing, your butt, your vagina, your boobs, you’re angry, you’re horny — the thing we kept coming to that was most compelling to us was how your friendships change.
We had a night nurse who turned into our nanny, and in the beginning, I would wake up and make us all oatmeal. With this tribe mentality of everybody just doing their role, I realized, “Oh, this is messy and real. This is not some idea that is completed.” I chose to have a kid and really wanted one for this revelation, to have this experience of being forced to get messy in this way. I knew this was the way that I needed to learn that.It’s so hard.
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