“Babes,” a sometimes raunchy and sometimes sentimental comedy about being pregnant, opened this weekend starring Ilana Glazer, who also co-wrote the film.
Glazer plays a single, free-spirited New Yorker who leans on her best friend after finding out she’s pregnant from a one night stand.
Glazer, an accomplished stand-up comic who has starred in TV shows like “Broad City,” spends part of “Babes” wearing padding to make her look pregnant.
She said she noticed no difference in how people treated her.
“No, nobody cares about if a pregnant person needs a hand. Ha, ha. No. So no I didn’t,” Glazer said in a recent satellite interview with News4JAX. “And the other thing is like I’m sort of skipping down the sidewalk, running in fact, because I was a producer on this movie, so I looked like I wasn’t really being weighed down by an extra 25 pounds of person and placenta.”
Glazer became a mom in real life three years ago and talked about the different challenges of giving birth vs. shooting a birth for a movie.
“The real and representation of giving birth is a totally different thing,” Glazer said. “It’s almost like 2D to 3D. In reality, it was like a spiritual thing. You know what I mean? Where I was like calling on the universe and my ancestors to see this through. But the performance, so I got myself really worked up, and really emotional and really crying. It was a privileged opportunity.”
Glazer said you don’t have to be someone who’s had a baby to appreciate the comedy and the sentimental moments in the film.
“We’re finding the reactions from people from all across the gender spectrum -- all races and ages even -- to be actually pretty similar,” she said. “They’re laughing a lot, and they’re really surprised at how emotional they’re getting by watching this movie.”