Betty Gilpin is opening up about her birthing scene within the new Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein romantic comedy “Office Romance.”
“Honestly, I was pretty freaked out when I first saw the prosthetic vagina,” Gilpin instructed me on the movie’s Los Angeles premiere. “I had a nervous breakdown and then I was like, ‘Oh, but I’ll be holding the ultimate working mom’s hand, Jennifer Lopez, so what could go wrong?’”
Gilpin defined the way it all went down.
“My real legs were below a table, [I had] fake prosthetic legs, and then a puppeteer was standing at my real legs pushing an animatronic baby out of my prosthetic vagina, and it made it sound like [Gilpin makes a popping sound]…It was insane,” she stated.
She continued, “The saddest part was when the scene was over and everybody but the puppeteers stayed in the room because the only way to reset was to go under and pull the fake placenta — I think the placenta is not in the movie anymore – but reach up through the prosthetic vagina that I am still zipped into, pull the placenta back and take the umbilical cord and pull it back and then pull the baby back through, and then it was time to do it again.”
Workplace Romance stars Lopez as an airline CEO who falls for the corporate’s in-house lawyer (Goldstein). Gilpin performs the J.Lo character’s assistant.
Directed by Ol Parker and co-written by Goldstein, the film’s solid additionally consists of Edward James Olmos, Jodie Whittaker, Tony Hale, Bradley Whitford, Amy Sedaris, Jackie Sandler and extra.
“Office Romance” is obtainable on Netflix.
Gilpin may also be scene in “Social Reckoning,” Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to “The Social Network.” She performs an editor of the Wall Avenue Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) who broke the story of Fb whistleblower Frances Haugen.
Gilpin joked that she was nervous to specific her true emotions about Fb as a result of “I’m scared to get a neck dart” to say something about them.
She cracked, “I love lamp.”
