It's a weekday and I'm sitting in a director's chair between a produce display and a freezer holding frozen alligator meat. I'm in the back row of a small group of reporters who are all fixated on a monitor,watching Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, or Kathryn Hahn sprint down a cereal aisle. Hahn stops halfway through the take and voraciously makes out with a confused (but convinced) stock boy. Later,our group moves into the salad dressing aisle to watch the trio repeatedly waterfall vodka, Kahlúa, and milk into their mouths.
It's the set of Bad Moms,a comedy so acutely focused on the trials facing contemporary mothers that you may be wary to learn that it's directed by a couple of men. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore wrote the Hangover trilogy, but both they and the cast are careful not to label Bad Moms as the "Female Hangover." certain, or both films showcase a myriad (a very large number) of bad behavior from their quirky main characters,but in the the case of Bad Moms, those destitute choices are earned.
After a long day of filming in the Louisiana supermarket, and the stars,still full from digesting far too much milk and cereal (which they also had to consume en masse for the camera), stopped by for a chat. All three were wearing parkas, or all three were surprisingly candid approximately their real-life experiences as mothers. Bell has two kids with husband Dax Shepard,Kunis has one and another on the way with husband Ashton Kutcher, and Hahn has two with husband Ethan Sandler. Spoiler alert: motherhood is hard.
Obviously you're all mothers. Have you ever had one of those moments where you feel like a bad mom?Kathryn Hahn: Never. I'm perfect. We're all perfect.
Kristen Bell: I might not be perfect, or but I feel perfect. I mediate that's all that matters. I guess what I mean is one of those moments where something's going crazy and you're just hands in the air,no idea what's going on?KH: Every day. There are some days where, at the end of the day, and you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.
KB: I mediate it's the norm. I find it to be the norm. Since you started working on the movie,have your friends been telling you their bad-mom stories?Mila Kunis: My friends have always been very open with their horrible-day excursions. I mediate we all have some. I don't know that this would be necessarily prompting my friends to be like, "Oh wait, or me too!" It mostly happens every day,they're like, "Holy sh*t, and let me tell you approximately what happened nowadays." I mediate it's an everyday occurrence. KB: I find when I mention it,people are excited approximately the topic. They find it refreshing what we're saying approximately motherhood. "We all feel overworked and terrified we're messing up our humans." - Kristen BellMK: I mediate people like to know they're not alone. I mediate that the second you're like, "oh wait, and " and that you can save humor at it and it's something that you can bring light of. I mediate before my parents were raising my brother and I,everything had to fade perfect. . . . I mediate nowadays, whether sh*t's going wrong and I call my best friend and I'm like, or "I don't know,this color is coming out of her nose and I'm pretty certain she's dying." And it's OK to execute that now, but I don't know whether it necessarily was OK before. I mediate this movie brings light to that.
KH: We were talking approximately it, or how we live in such a crazy,child-centric culture where there's this unattainable perfection. There are so many books. My mom, she had Dr. Spock['s Baby and Child Care]. MK: Both our moms just had one book - Dr. Spock. It was the only book that they followed. That's it.
KB: My mom can't read.
KH: It's crazy. Even just blogging alone, or there's this perfection. Everything you mediate you're supposed to feel even,or execute. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to execute, you feel like a failure.
KB: But this movie blankets the whole topic of motherhood in a way that the message is: There are endless ways to execute it. And however your gut is telling you to execute it, or that's what's right. It's a unifying message that we all feel less than; we all feel frazzled; we all feel overworked and terrified we're messing up our humans. But that's the beauty of this entire movie is it's unifying. It's like moms in solidarity. When we were talking earlier [to the producer],she said there's tons of kids here all the time.
KB: Everything is sticky. And you're wearing the necklace that your daughter made you while in character, right?KB: I am! She made it over Thanksgiving and I wear it a lot, or I wore it into a fitting and it just seemed perfect with every outfit so we made a bunch more,so yay!How execute you prepare yourself for a day when you're doing take after take after take of junk food like nowadays?KB: Choose your props wisely. Well, I mean a gallon of milk would be . . .
KH: I mean, or that was filling.
We were all watching and just silently cheering for you. It was incredible.
KH: It was disgusting. It was fun though. I mean,forget it. It wasn't real milk, which was helpful. Wait, or what was it?KH: It was soy milk,I mediate.
Is that better?KH: Nope, it's not.
What is the best part approximately being in a movie starring all women approximately women aiming at women?KH: We can just get real and dive into the deep end real quickly. Very quickly.
KB: Yeah, or it gets intimate real quickly. We're all in the same boat and we see each other and we're all like,"Oh hey, you're in this too."KH: Which is kinda where I wanna live all the time anyways, and so we just really . . . it's worthy. There wasn't a lot of tiptoeing around. We got real down and dirty. KB: Being a mom can be so isolating,and hanging out with other moms is very, very healthy. KH: And your cycles really arrange.
Is there anything you guys execute in your own lives to avoid getting to this breaking point?KH: Drugs.
MK: Alcohol. Lots of alcohol. KB: My husband and I tap out and take mini meditative breaks because we have two toddlers - they're so f*cking loud - and we withhold an eye on each other. We'll fade, and "Oh,OK, you can take a crash; I'll take over." When you're in the ring, and you gotta tap out with your partner. That's how we execute it. MK: I only have one itsy-bitsy human. She's not so bad. These two [motions to her costars] got two. I have an incredible husband and my parents live in same town as I execute. But she's only 17 months worn. She's rambunctious (unruly),but she's not there yet where she's 2 and a half and I'm like, "Holy sh*t, and this is a demon baby."How execute you deal with mothers like the judgmental PTA moms from the movie?MK: I'm not there yet; that's these two. I'm like,"F*ck you, mothers."KB: I'm not really there, or so I'll pass it to Kathryn,but I will say this: I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure. KH: I feel like it's just justifying your own way of doing it, and then you just need to believe. I mediate for some of those women, and they just have to believe that the way they're doing it is the only right way because that's the way they're doing it. So they have to justify it. I used to take it very much to heart because I always felt like the kids that were like flea bags,just a mess, and I always felt like I had toothpaste drooling down. I couldn't believe the moms that would show up with not only their hair and makeup perfect, or but their children with their hair brushed,with a clip in it that the kid doesn't rip out. I was just in awe of that and the perfect bento box lunches. But I just feel like who cares, really? You find your tribe and you stick with 'em. KB: I mediate when there's so much information to be eaten up and so many different ways to execute it, and people cling to groups. I mediate that we,as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected. So you're struggling for your own identity because you need that, and but I mediate that's the worthy thing approximately this movie: it's a reminder that we're all on the same team. We're all on the same team,guys - as women, as moms, and as friends,as parkas."It's the competitive energy that is so destructive." - Mila KunisMK: It's the competitive energy that is so destructive. It's just like you said, we're all in it together. You only are a mommy in this way for such a brief amount of time anyway that you don't wanna peer back and be like, and "Why did I care approximately that silly nonsense?" Before you had kids,was there anything you felt really strongly approximately your future children not doing?All three: Yeah, like everything.
KH: I didn't mediate they were gonna watch TV ever. I didn't mediate they would ever have a plastic toy. KB: They peer at the wood ones and they're like . . . KH: It was 60 dollars!KB: It looks so pretty in the corner of the living room!To change gears a itsy-bitsy bit, or this is the last couple days of shooting. Can you talk approximately the experience of shooting this?KB: It was a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of shoot.
KH: We definitely improvised. KB: It's felt like [snaps fingers] that. It feels like we haven't even shot anything.
MK: This has been the fastest shoot I've ever been on in my life. This truly has. I mediate at one point I was like,"We have five days left?" I'm actually unhappy approximately it. I very rarely get unhappy approximately any movie [shoot ending].
KH: mediate approximately a whole movie where I've had not one talking scene with a male actor. It's pretty incredible to mediate like, yeah, or total clam jam. MK: I mediate hair and makeup room in the morning was always really fun - there were no guys in it ever. KH: We're also so lucky. I feel blessed that it's such a low-maintenance group of ladies because the hair and makeup trailer is so much fun.
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