Speaker 1: The daffodils, the tulip seben fading away, the cherry blossoms
Speaker 1: falling in a profusion of soft, rosy petals that remind
Speaker 1: me of fluffy, pink snow drifts in my yard. April
Speaker 1: has nearly worn itself out, But before we bid it goodbye,
Speaker 1: let's take a moment to appreciate all that it delivered
Speaker 1: after winter had its way with us. I also want
Speaker 1: to recognize it for another good reason. April is National
Speaker 1: Infertility Awareness Month. It is a month filled with signs
Speaker 1: of rebirth and renewal. Perhaps that is why it was
Speaker 1: chosen to raise awareness and spread knowledge and hope for
Speaker 1: those experiencing the painful reality of infertility. Because infertility is
Speaker 1: a problem and it's getting more common all the time.
Speaker 1: About twelve percent of couples experience it. But the unique
Speaker 1: circumstances of couples and individuals can make infertility sufferers feel very,
Speaker 1: very alone. They're not there is A beautiful film called Unexpected.
Speaker 1: Unexpected was originally released back in twenty twenty three, but
Speaker 1: it's now streaming on Prime Video. It's about a couple
Speaker 1: struggling with infertility and how they navigate life's unexpected twists
Speaker 1: that lead them on a heartfelt, humorous journey towards a
Speaker 1: family they never saw coming. Here's a synopsis of the movie.
Speaker 1: Music critic Bob is facing a career setback, increasing anxiety
Speaker 1: and the daily chaos created by the animals his wife
Speaker 1: Amy has brought into their home. Amy Key bringing animals
Speaker 1: home common theme in my life. While grappling with the
Speaker 1: weight of infertility, the couple faces acrossroads. Will adopting a
Speaker 1: baby be the answer to their search for meaning fulfillment
Speaker 1: and family. It is produced by Today's podcast guest I'm
Speaker 1: going to be talking with the extremely funny and talented
Speaker 1: Patricia Heaton. She worked on this movie with her production partner,
Speaker 1: her husband, David Hunt. Patricia best known for her role
Speaker 1: on the beloved and critically acclaimed series Everybody Loves Raymond.
Speaker 1: For her nine season portrayal of Raymond's wife, Deborah, she
Speaker 1: received seven consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations, winning for Best Actress
Speaker 1: in a Comedy twice. She then followed that up with
Speaker 1: another nine season starring run on the ABC comedy The Middle.
Speaker 1: Patricia is with us today. I adore her work, I
Speaker 1: adore what I know of her life. Her faith, her family.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to share some time with her ride
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Speaker 1: for joining us today. Yeah, hello, welcome to Love Someone
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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: I am so glad we're doing this on zoom. Although
Speaker 1: our listeners can't see it, I get to see you
Speaker 1: in fangirl for a minute. I don't fangirl very often
Speaker 1: because I've worked nights for forty five years. Fifty years
Speaker 1: I've done the night shift. So I am probably the
Speaker 1: only person in America that, like, never watched a single
Speaker 1: episode of Dallas, you know, back in the day, or
Speaker 1: I've never seen I've never seen any of the talent
Speaker 1: shows you know, America's got talent or whatever, unless I
Speaker 1: see them, you know, on my computer and the little
Speaker 1: clips they send out.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But back when, back in the day, I would record you.
Speaker 2: Oh that's lovely.
Speaker 1: And that's how I figured out how to use the
Speaker 1: recording device so I could record you, because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1: You make me laugh and you're just so I'm fangirling
Speaker 1: for a moment.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: You are, and you're even more beautiful, like you're so beautiful.
Speaker 1: My podcast producer runs things by me and she's like, well,
Speaker 1: how would you like to talk to this person? How
Speaker 1: would you like to talk to that person? And she
Speaker 1: reached out to me and she said, I already know
Speaker 1: the answer, but I still have to get the official
Speaker 1: So how would you like to talk to Patercia Heaton?
Speaker 1: And you you're one of those people that we all
Speaker 1: I think everybody feels like you're our friend. We've seen you,
Speaker 1: You've been a part of our lives for so many decades.
Speaker 1: Like when you popped up on my screen, I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: there she is. I've never met you before. But do
Speaker 1: you get that a lot? Like people feel like you're
Speaker 1: their best friend?
Speaker 3: Yes, And they relate to my characters that I've played,
Speaker 3: and both Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle are on
Speaker 3: all the time, and people often tell me they go
Speaker 3: to bed with one show or the other. A lot
Speaker 3: of people go to sleep to Raymond and watch The
Speaker 3: Middle with their whole family and binge it and rewatch
Speaker 3: it and picked up, you know, sayings from the show.
Speaker 1: It kind of becomes a part of your vernacular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it sort of becomes a tapestry, part of
Speaker 3: the tapestry of the like the background of your life
Speaker 3: or the environment. Just the way when you're a teenager
Speaker 3: and you hear certain songs from the past, it evokes
Speaker 3: that period of your life. And I think that comedies
Speaker 3: can do that too. And the thing about Raymond in particular,
Speaker 3: but The Middle has quite a wide international reach. Also,
Speaker 3: they both have universal themes about family that anybody in
Speaker 3: any country can relate to. In the Raymond it was
Speaker 3: really about marriage and in laws, and then The Middle
Speaker 3: is about raising kids from grade school to teens high school.
Speaker 3: So and everybody in the world can relate to those things.
Speaker 3: So and they're timeless also Raymond in particular, but also
Speaker 3: pretty much with The Middle. They never did topical episodes,
Speaker 3: you know, so that the show's never dated because they're
Speaker 3: not talking about whatever the administration was current at that time,
Speaker 3: and there's no political things it's really about these.
Speaker 2: Broad universal.
Speaker 3: Values and situations that anyone who's married with kids has
Speaker 3: dealt with.
Speaker 1: And now we're going to talk about a movie that
Speaker 1: kind of wraps all those themes up together with Unexpected,
Speaker 1: which came out two years ago, but now it's available
Speaker 1: on Prime, so right, for those folks who never leave
Speaker 1: the house anymore. Until it's available on Prime, it's not
Speaker 1: really out there.
Speaker 2: That's right. And one of the reasons we've decided to.
Speaker 3: Promote it again now is that it's National Infertility Awareness months.
Speaker 3: And though Unexpected, with Anna Camp and Joe Mazzello as
Speaker 3: our stars, is a quirky comedy about a marriage, but
Speaker 3: it's dealing with the idea of struggling with infertility, struggling
Speaker 3: with the question of whether to adopt or not. And
Speaker 3: our couple, Bob and Amy, are on different pages about
Speaker 3: adoption and infertility and struggle to get on the same
Speaker 3: page at the same time. And we all have seen
Speaker 3: articles about IVF and surrogacy, and there's all these, you know,
Speaker 3: many articles mostly focused on women naturally, about what you
Speaker 3: go through to try to get pregnant if you're struggling.
Speaker 3: And one of the crew members, a guy said to
Speaker 3: us while we were filming Unexpected. He said, you know,
Speaker 3: you never hear really the male perspective and how a
Speaker 3: man is also being emotionally impacted by this situation. And
Speaker 3: it's really nice to see the man also given space
Speaker 3: in this movie to go through his struggle and we
Speaker 3: see that point of view also.
Speaker 2: So I was very impressed.
Speaker 3: Because this is just a crew guy that I don't
Speaker 3: even know that he's even married, but he, you know,
Speaker 3: was suggesting that we don't get the male perspective and
Speaker 3: the male struggle on this topic.
Speaker 2: So that was.
Speaker 3: An eye opener for me to hear that from a
Speaker 3: male crew member. But it's and of course I love
Speaker 3: comedy and I think comedy is a great way into
Speaker 3: a difficult topic, and so it's it's very quirky. Our
Speaker 3: actors are fantas plastick at a camp and Joe Mazzello,
Speaker 3: and you know, with comedy of you you can kind
Speaker 3: of grab people's hearts through laughter. They kind of open
Speaker 3: up and relax even physically. If you're laughing, your body's
Speaker 3: getting extra oxygen and your serotonin levels are going up.
Speaker 3: And so that when things happen in the movie and
Speaker 3: it takes a slightly more dramatic turn. You're kind of
Speaker 3: open to it, and I think that's what makes this
Speaker 3: movie so powerful.
Speaker 1: Comedy does that with everything, whether it's you know, difficult
Speaker 1: subjects like infertility. What a tough topic to talk about,
Speaker 1: to be open about, to deal with. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of any other movie or book that I've read
Speaker 1: outside of you know, technical stuff or firsthand experience that
Speaker 1: deals with the topic like it's a part of life.
Speaker 1: It's what so many couples are facing today.
Speaker 3: So many couples, and for so many reasons. I think environmentally,
Speaker 3: you know, I think we're really now paying very close
Speaker 3: attention to what's in our food, what kind of drugs
Speaker 3: we're taking, what we're giving our kids, what's in the
Speaker 3: atmosphere plastic particular particulate matter and everything, you know, those things.
Speaker 1: I saw a study the other day about polyester pants
Speaker 1: and how that affects.
Speaker 3: Oh no, because well, it didn't affect me, because that's
Speaker 3: all I wore in the seventies. I remember a particular
Speaker 3: pair of peach colored, high waisted, thirty inch bell polyester
Speaker 3: pants I got for my sixteenth birthday, which were fabulous,
Speaker 3: But I was able to still have pop out for kids,
Speaker 3: kind of late in life.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to vouch for polyester.
Speaker 1: Yes, I made my mother taught me how to sew
Speaker 1: and what you basically means. She would come and say
Speaker 1: rip it out, rip it out, rip it out, and
Speaker 1: then she would end up finishing the project because but
Speaker 1: she made me the thirty inch bell you know, high
Speaker 1: waist polyester.
Speaker 2: Fantastic.
Speaker 1: You know that was really I had them in white,
Speaker 1: and I had him in pink.
Speaker 3: Okay, And let me say, the seventies are interesting because
Speaker 3: the men looked terrible, horrid, but the women have never
Speaker 3: looked better. You look at farafaucet, this gorgeous hair, right
Speaker 3: these really these clothes like a high waisted polyester, thirty
Speaker 3: inch bell bottom pant is fabulous. Look it makes everybody
Speaker 3: look fantastic. Like the women looked wonderful and the men
Speaker 3: looked terrible.
Speaker 1: Look dorky as I'll get out. Yes, yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: social media posts the other day that what could have
Speaker 1: been me and my best friends hanging out, lazing around
Speaker 1: and leaning against a camaro, you know, and it said
Speaker 1: it said something like, you think you're cool, you will
Speaker 1: never be as badass as your grandma.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 1: It's and the guys with their dorky plaid polyester leisure suits,
Speaker 1: what was that about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and bad haircuts and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we still thought they were hot back then.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we didn't have a choice else were we
Speaker 3: going to go. But but just to say that, you know,
Speaker 3: so the environment is a factor, I think in the struggle.
Speaker 2: And then women delaying their.
Speaker 3: Child bearing years until into their thirties, which is what
Speaker 3: happened with me. Didn't have my first son until I
Speaker 3: was thirty five, so and I had, you know, four
Speaker 3: very quick succession. They were born in ninety three, ninety five,
Speaker 3: ninety seven, and ninety nine. So so but and I
Speaker 3: was just very fortunate, you know. I just come from
Speaker 3: a very you know, large sort of Irish Catholic tribe.
Speaker 3: And my mother was one of fifteen kids, and you know,
Speaker 3: all of those fifteen kids had between five and ten
Speaker 3: kids themselves.
Speaker 1: So how many first cousins, like around.
Speaker 2: One hundred first cousins.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And my husband jokes that he's British, and he
Speaker 3: jokes that I had to marry someone out of the
Speaker 3: country just to make sure I wasn't marrying a relative.
Speaker 1: So infertility is certainly not anything you or your family.
Speaker 3: I've not struggled with it, Praise God, but I think
Speaker 3: those are some of the factors. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: as far as delaying your child bearing until later, I
Speaker 3: kind of understand women doing it twenty years ago, fifteen
Speaker 3: years ago, when we didn't have companies willing to let
Speaker 3: women work remotely.
Speaker 2: I used to work with a group.
Speaker 3: Called Feminists for Life, and they for years, years, way
Speaker 3: before it was cool, way before it was normal, they
Speaker 3: were always pushing and trying to get companies to allow
Speaker 3: what they call telework that time, but we're talking about
Speaker 3: remote work, and nobody was up for it, and then
Speaker 3: the pandemic happened and it was forced upon everyone and
Speaker 3: has become, you know, an option often now, although a
Speaker 3: lot of people are being forced to go back into
Speaker 3: the offices, and there's a case to be made for
Speaker 3: that too, but now there are more, I think options
Speaker 3: for parents in the workplace. So I feel that, you know,
Speaker 3: if you've met your life partner, you know, investigate what
Speaker 3: it would be like to if your company offers any
Speaker 3: kind of that program to work remotely when you're having
Speaker 3: your kids, you should go ahead and do that, because
Speaker 3: it's really tough if you wait and wait and wait,
Speaker 3: and then you get to be in your thirties, your
Speaker 3: mid thirties, and then you find out you're now you're
Speaker 3: struggling to get to conceive. You know, you've you the
Speaker 3: clock is really ticking.
Speaker 2: It's just a reality.
Speaker 3: And it's not a judgment of anybody who waits or whatever.
Speaker 3: I look, I didn't, as I said, I didn't have
Speaker 3: my kids till I was in my thirties. But I
Speaker 3: think trying to take advantage of the way the world
Speaker 3: is now where you have more opportunities to work from home,
Speaker 3: if you can do that and you want to have kids,
Speaker 3: and I would say investigate that.
Speaker 1: Before you hear TikTok TikTok, TikTok TikTok, because then.
Speaker 3: You get stressed, and the stress and the pressure can
Speaker 3: make your body, you know, make it harder for your
Speaker 3: body to conceive when you have that on top of it.
Speaker 1: So your hobby, he's your producing partner, right you guys.
Speaker 2: Were you directed this movie and we both produced it? Unexpected?
Speaker 1: How fun is that like to get to work with
Speaker 1: the person you love the best?
Speaker 2: Oh? Are you married? I am you've clearly never worked
Speaker 2: with your husband.
Speaker 1: Hell no, yeah, well we're working with a Dave.
Speaker 2: We just we have to.
Speaker 3: It's great and we're almost always on the same page,
Speaker 3: but with different styles of working.
Speaker 2: So what we have to do is kind of set
Speaker 2: the rules.
Speaker 3: As long as you have rules and you know where
Speaker 3: the boundaries are when you're working together.
Speaker 1: So what's your work is that?
Speaker 2: It's fine?
Speaker 1: Are you do you? Are you mythoonical? Do you have
Speaker 1: a schedule?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: Are you hierarchy? Well, so on a set, the director
Speaker 3: is the last word. So he was directing. I was
Speaker 3: sitting next to him at the monitor, but I, you know,
Speaker 3: we're both actors and we love working with actors, and
Speaker 3: I would have my own notes when we would watch,
Speaker 3: like with Unexpected, when we would watch a scene, and
Speaker 3: so we had to just and only the director should
Speaker 3: be going on set to give actors notes after a take,
Speaker 3: and so I have to make sure he didn't leap
Speaker 3: out of his director's chair before I say, what do
Speaker 3: you think about here's my notes? What do you think
Speaker 3: about that? Because I didn't want to be running up
Speaker 3: onto set with him, because they need to only be
Speaker 3: listening to one person or else it gets confusing. So
Speaker 3: there are things like that that we just had to
Speaker 3: make sure we were we were in sync about all
Speaker 3: of that, and you know, we're very opinion it where
Speaker 3: both actors were super opinionated, but for the most part
Speaker 3: we're we're on the same page.
Speaker 1: So and it's fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh. Making a movie is probably one
Speaker 3: of the hardest things you could do, but it is
Speaker 3: so wonderful when you're in the midst of it, and
Speaker 3: when you're in charge. It's a lot of responsibility, but
Speaker 3: if you have a good crew supporting you, it can.
Speaker 2: Be so much fun.
Speaker 3: And to have that creative control and to see things
Speaker 3: come to life and then to see magic happen that
Speaker 3: you didn't plan. You know, you try to plan, especially
Speaker 3: when you're doing a low budget, you try to plan
Speaker 3: within an inch of your life, uh, so that you
Speaker 3: finish on time every day, you don't run over because
Speaker 3: it's costly.
Speaker 2: And then when you've got that rolling like a machine.
Speaker 3: Sometimes things just happened between the actors or there was
Speaker 3: one there's one scene in the movie where it's sort
Speaker 3: of a more serious moment and one of the one
Speaker 3: of the characters walks out the door and as the
Speaker 3: door shut, it created a little wind in the room
Speaker 3: where this curtain just softly moved after he shut the door,
Speaker 3: which you can't you can't plan, and it just was
Speaker 3: like this beautiful thing where we're all of us have
Speaker 3: the monitor, were like, oh, the curtain.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like geeking out now about little things on set
Speaker 3: that make you happy. But it's that kind of magic
Speaker 3: and magic that happens between the actors. And there's a
Speaker 3: there's a scene in the movie. There's a rabbit kind
Speaker 3: of figures prominently in the movie, a live rabbit named Binkie,
Speaker 3: but also a little origami rabbit that is in a
Speaker 3: tiny little boat that sails down this little creek. And
Speaker 3: to watch fifty people standing at this edge of this
Speaker 3: creek just with their fingers crossed, hoping that that little
Speaker 3: origami bunny makes it down this certain way and over
Speaker 3: the waterfall of this creek, you know, and we're like, oh,
Speaker 3: is it going?
Speaker 2: Is it? Oh? I have to do it again because
Speaker 2: he went the wrong way or the bunny tipped over.
Speaker 3: It's some of a ridiculous way of living, but it's
Speaker 3: one of my favorite scenes in the movie because it's
Speaker 3: just so it's shot beautifully by our wonderful DP Alison Andersson,
Speaker 3: and it's just a very moving moment and it's visually
Speaker 3: beautiful and touching with this beautiful music underneath it. So
Speaker 3: those are the kind of things that keep crazies like
Speaker 3: us going because it's an insane business and nobody in
Speaker 3: the right mind would ever pursue it.
Speaker 2: It would have to.
Speaker 3: It just has to be something that's in you that
Speaker 3: you just feel you have stories to tell and they
Speaker 3: must come out.
Speaker 1: So in addition to telling those stories in your acting
Speaker 1: career when you were on camera and in your producing career,
Speaker 1: you've written a book for moms, you've written a book
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 2: That can act.
Speaker 1: How to get a job like mine.
Speaker 2: Oh, motherhood in Hollywood? How to get a job like mine?
Speaker 3: I wrote that many many years ago when I was
Speaker 3: on Everybody Loves Raymond. And it's sort of an odd
Speaker 3: autobiography and that it's it's divided into three sections, growing
Speaker 3: up in Cleveland, struggling in New York, and making it
Speaker 3: in Hollywood. So the chapters are not necessarily on a
Speaker 3: start to finish timeline. It's sort of a little bit
Speaker 3: stream of consciousness essays on certain events that happened in
Speaker 3: those three different periods of my life, about things I
Speaker 3: experienced and what I learned. And it is a really
Speaker 3: fun book to write.
Speaker 1: And now you've got four boys, and have they all launched?
Speaker 1: Are they still in the nest on the edge of
Speaker 1: the nesta? Have they flown the nest?
Speaker 3: They've all flown the nest in a sense. And there's
Speaker 3: ages twenty six to thirty one, and they all have jobs,
Speaker 3: but they're still, you know, finding their way. Three of
Speaker 3: them have what I consider serious girlfriend. I think that
Speaker 3: those are going to be their life partners. So we're
Speaker 3: excited about that. And we're just trying to stay alive
Speaker 3: long enough to see grandchildren because that could be a minute.
Speaker 1: So I'll lend you a few, oh, so that we can.
Speaker 2: Give them back after a few hours. Yeah, it'd be great.
Speaker 1: Between my husband and I, we have twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: and one great grand So.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. You sound like yeah my mom's family
Speaker 3: growing up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I didn't do it the old fashioned way
Speaker 1: like your mom, right right right. I let other women,
Speaker 1: God bless them, all the birth moms to the heavy lifting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and all but two I got after they were you
Speaker 1: know out of diapers, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's helpful. Yeah, they were.
Speaker 1: Sleep through the night mostly mostly mostly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: We have a couple projects that we're going to be
Speaker 3: taking out and pitching. I'd like to do another comedy,
Speaker 3: possibly multi camera, with an audience, because it's such an
Speaker 3: immediate gratification and I love being with comedy people. It's
Speaker 3: really fun. And I think when you spend your life
Speaker 3: trying to make people laugh, it gives you kind of
Speaker 3: a lightness.
Speaker 2: Now, of course there's a gat up comedians. We're a
Speaker 2: little bit different.
Speaker 3: They're slightly darker, but for the most part comedic actors,
Speaker 3: and sometimes they're both like Ray Ramano. It's just fun.
Speaker 3: It's just fun to make people laugh. It's fun to
Speaker 3: be around people who make you laugh. And I think
Speaker 3: if everybody could go to work and your whole focus
Speaker 3: of the day was trying to be funny and perfecting
Speaker 3: it and honing it, and then at the end of
Speaker 3: the week an audience came in and applauded your efforts
Speaker 3: at your job, the world would be a much.
Speaker 1: Much better place place.
Speaker 3: It's a blessing, a blessing. A blessing to be able
Speaker 3: to make my living doing comedy. It's such a blessing.
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy being around people who aren't funny, like
Speaker 1: if you can't laugh, especially at tragic situations or.
Speaker 2: Difficult Comedy is based on pain.
Speaker 3: Really, when you analyze it, it's about pain and pain
Speaker 3: as can be hilarious and it's the best. A great
Speaker 3: way to deal with pain is to try to find
Speaker 3: the humor in it, which kind of lends you a
Speaker 3: sense of hope and that this, you know, whatever you're
Speaker 3: going through, is not going to last forever. And that
Speaker 3: the other message would be there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: in the world who are going through what you're going through,
Speaker 3: and we all get it and we share it.
Speaker 1: Amen. Amen.
Speaker 3: When my when my father was passing away, all of
Speaker 3: us five kids had the blessing of being with him
Speaker 3: for the last three days of his life in the
Speaker 3: in the hospice care and you know, every day, at
Speaker 3: some point in the day, the nurses would come in
Speaker 3: and say, I think this is time, it's time. Now
Speaker 3: he's going, he's going, and we'd all gather around him
Speaker 3: and put our hands on him and thank him and
Speaker 3: talk to him, and then he'd hang in there, and
Speaker 3: he'd hang in there, and then another day and another day.
Speaker 3: By the third day, my brother said, this is the
Speaker 3: worst slumber party.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: Come on Dad.
Speaker 2: And head.
Speaker 1: He was probably cracking himself up, like gotcha again, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know humor, humor, well, you humor us,
Speaker 1: you make us laugh. Ah. Patricia, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Thank you, honey.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God bless. Patricia recently finished filming a supporting role
Speaker 1: alongside Zoey das Chanel and Charlie Cox on the Amazon
Speaker 1: MGM studio's upcoming film MERV, and also start alongside Brian
Speaker 1: Cox in the indie feature Mending the Line and in
Speaker 1: Sony's faith based comedy Mom's Night Out. She can currently
Speaker 1: be seen in the feature film Unbreakable Boy, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that movie made me cry so hard with Zachary Levi,
Speaker 1: and next in the ritual with al Pacino, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this woman. She does not slow down. Make a note
Speaker 1: of all those already released and still to come, but
Speaker 1: right now. Watch Unexpected on Prime Video, a heartfelt dramedy
Speaker 1: that brings humor and honesty to the emotional complexities of
Speaker 1: infertility and adoption, showing us one couple wrestling with disappointment
Speaker 1: who discover that family has not always formed how we
Speaker 1: plan it, but often it is exactly what we need.
Speaker 1: It's a film about embracing the unpredictable beauty of life.
Speaker 1: Keep your eyes out and your ears open for new
Speaker 1: projects coming from Four Boys Entertainment. That is the name
Speaker 1: of Patricia's production company that she and her husband have
Speaker 1: and keep up with Patricia on Facebook and Instagram. Embrace
Speaker 1: what little is left of April and welcome May with
Speaker 1: open arms and open hearts. And if you need a
Speaker 1: little company in the evening, you know where to find me.
Speaker 1: You are listening to the Lila
Speaker 3: Mhmm.