Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau and Pamela Adlon Delight SXSW With ‘Raw’ Pregnancy Comedy ‘Babes’
variety.comAdam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer “Babes,” a new comedy about the highs and lows of pregnancy and early motherhood, received a boisterous welcome at its SXSW premiere on Saturday.
The audience frequently broke into sustained waves of laughter watching BFFs Eden (Ilana Glazer, who also co-wrote and produced) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) contend with how Dawn’s second child and Eden’s unexpected pregnancy upend their lifelong, so-close-they-send-each-other-photos-of-their-poops friendship.
At the post-screening Q&A, Glazer — also joined by director Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”) and co-writer Josh Rabinowitz — explained that while showering, producer Susie Fox had a vision of making a movie about how she and so many people she knew (including Glazer and Rabinowitz) were either impending or new parents. “We found that we were really interested in how it changed our friendships,” Glazer said. “That was the way we started organizing all the ideas.” Adlon, who is making her feature directing debut with “Babes,” said that she was “moved” by the resulting script, fascinated by its depiction of “how friendships change and morph.
Somebody gets a partner and somebody gets a kid and maybe another kid, and somebody doesn’t have that yet.” “I’m floating more towards the female direction in terms of the worlds that I’m interested in,” Adlon added.
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