WEBVTT - Ilana Glazer: Beyond Broad City 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.400 Welcome back to she Pivots. I'm Alana Glazer. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.439 Welcome to she Pivots, the podcast where we talk with 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.720 women who dared to pivot out of one career and 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.160 into something new and explore how their personal lives impacted 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:31.800 these decisions. I'm your host, Emily Tish Sussman. Hey, she 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.400 Pivots listeners Today, I'm absolutely thrilled to have the spectacular 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.879 and brilliant Alana Glazer on the show. You know her, 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.800 you love her from Broad City, and you're sure to 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.000 fall in love with her all over again with the 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.360 release of her new movie, Babes. Alana is an actress, 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.840 a writer, a producer, a change maker, and a mom. Today, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.520 we're talking about her latest film, Babes, and how her 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.960 personal experience shapes the creation, as well as her incredible 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.880 pivot into founding Generator Collective. Alana does what Alana does 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.959 best in her new movie Babes, where she uses her 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.640 sharp wit and intellect to explore the multifaceted lives of 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.160 women and the crazy but beautiful moments of pregnancy and 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.640 the ups and the downs that come with navigating life. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:18.560 All of it. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.039 It's in theaters right now, so grab your friends and 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.399 get your tickets today. But of course Alana's many ventures 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.640 don't stop there. Recognizing the need for real, impactful change, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.319 she co founded Generator Collective after the twenty sixteen election, 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.160 and as someone who's worked in politics and is now 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:39.120 working in culture change, I absolutely love what Alana is 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:44.280 doing over a Generator. She makes politics accessible, engaging, exactly 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.240 what we need in this political climate. From her advocacy 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.720 to comedy to motherhood, Alana has always had the incredible 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.919 ability to bridge her personal experiences with her professional work. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.880 I mean, her character was literally named Alana on Broad City. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.160 Excited to share this conversation, let's dive in. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.760 My name is Alana rose Blazer, and I'm a comedian 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:12.600 and an activist. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.480 Did you always know that you wanted to be a 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.760 comedian and actually also an activist? 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:17.760 Yes? 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.120 The activist part now that kind of like unfolded and 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.959 revealed itself to me. But comedian, yes, in the way 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.519 that I think people start to understand their gender and sexuality. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.600 Around seven and eight. My identity was becoming organized around 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.400 being a comedian around seven and eight. When when I 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.040 was a kid, it was like Rosie O'Donnell, Whoopie Goldberg, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.800 Robin Williams, Billy Crystal Musty TV Thursdays. It was like 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.679 that was kind of the vibe those channels were pop in. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.480 At the time. There was so much TV to watch. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.799 I used to watch hours and hours of TV every day. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.680 It was crazy. So my brother also wanted to be 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.120 a comedian, and my dad was awesome enough to be 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.960 chill about letting us use the Sony camcorder. So my 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.200 brother like really put me on when we were kids, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.000 and he, you know, we would make sketches from when 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:14.400 I was four and he was eight years old. We 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.680 would make hours and hours and hours of sketch comedy 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.440 and it was based on SNL. We loved SNL and 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.880 we loved SNL before we were like old enough to 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.600 watch and throughout the years and all the generations from 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.720 like Adam Sandler and Chris Farley and David Spade to 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.520 like Tim Meadows and Will Ferrell and Cherio Terry and 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.840 Molly Shannon to Tina and Amy. So we would make 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.360 these videos in our basement for so many hours. So 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.040 my grandpa, my mom's dad, Grandpa Dave David Wexler, he 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.520 would make videos and called it KRIPTV was his like 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.080 Joke Network, and we inherited it from him and took 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.680 on that branding and then we had a rebrand GBS 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.240 Glazer Broadcasting System. Yeah, we were obsessed. We were obsessed. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.960 And it's so funny at the time, like Elliott would 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.640 edit in real time how you one used to do 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.440 with film cameras where you're like you redo over the 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.560 tape if you don't like that, take like crazy crazy. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.000 Well, when you started broad City, it was just a 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.640 jump ahead a little bit. Here, wasn't that far off, 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.000 Like you were doing it as a web series exactly, 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.640 just sort of taking it upon yourself to organize some 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:35.680 ideas and have the gumption to film it and like 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:37.960 spend resources on it, you know what I mean. Like 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.080 when Abby Jacobson and I were making Broad City, we 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.840 were catering and waiters and nanny ing, and she worked 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.160 at a bakery and then we worked together at a 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:52.440 as sales people at a company that later my character's 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.279 Alana Weser's job deal Steel Steels, was based on. And 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.080 we were just like spending all our money on this 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.240 web series and it was like are we crazy? 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.280 You know? But even if like all the actualization that 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.520 came to be of broad City. Hadn't happened, it would 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.120 have been worth it to do that because we learned 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.400 so much about like gathering people to make a project. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.599 You know, it's really hard to sort of fight entropy 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.159 in that way and sort of will something to happen. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.880 We did it thirty five times. Actually, we had thirty 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.760 five short films by the end of the two years 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.240 that we made broad City the web series, And I 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:33.400 think that obsession, that obsessiveness of making thirty five short 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.440 films in two years was what proved our command over 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.000 the world, Like you can't recast that shit, you know. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.719 And the first webisode we put out it was called 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:55.800 making Change. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:53.799 Dollars. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.480 Oh, I don't have any cashman side wonderful? Kay I? 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.760 Actually I have a ten if you could give me 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:06.479 eight back or we're good. Yeah, that's perfect. Thank you 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.919 so much. Yes, have a good day. Okay. And this 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:11.840 is for the bagel. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:12.720 Thank you a lot. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:13.920 What the you doing? 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.480 You make casture the holes for I just said thank 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.080 you for the bagel. And right after that, Paul w 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.920 Down's and Luccia on Yellow, the two of the three 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.560 creators of Hacks, the third being Jenstatski wrote us and 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.680 they were like, this is something, this is good, and 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.880 they told us. I'm now remembering they told us about 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.680 Ali Shakat and Elliott Page at the time had this 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:38.240 project at HBO, and Luccia was like, you should try 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.720 to like send this over to that team so they 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.200 can see and if it goes, you could be writers 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.120 on it. That was like what we That was what 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.560 we were hoping for, to get a writing job as 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.760 a duo, you know, like really couldn't have I don't 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.120 like maybe maybe yes, could have dreamed. But like it's 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.680 years later, it's like fifteen years later, and I still 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.640 kind of am processing that the miracle happened and what 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.640 we started the web series. I was twenty two. We 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.160 ended the TV shows thirty two, and that was five 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.560 years ago, so like fifteen years later, I'm like, damn, damn. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.720 You know, it's like it's still kind of shocking. But 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.040 we learned everything. We learned how to line, produce, show 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:19.320 run right, direct, and act. And in that process of 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.480 finding it, Amy Poehler had found you guys. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:26.200 I mean, given the fact that you had started imitating 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.200 these incredible years of SNL right with Amy, I mean 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.040 could you even believe it? Like, what was the first 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.880 interaction in did you fall over? Oh my gosh, I 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.640 have like chills thinking about it's so crazy. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.640 Oh my gosh. And she just texted us actually this 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.720 like oral history of Broad City. It's like such the 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.480 characters are almost like our little babies, you know, all 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.800 of us at this point where we're like, oh, you know, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.200 like the characters and also young Abby and me not 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.880 even knowing what was ahead. You know, it's so so wild. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.960 Amy was one of four people who started the Upright 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:06.880 Citizens Brigade Theater. She and the UCB Improve and Sketch 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.760 Group came from Chicago, planted themselves in New York and 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.360 built this theater which became This is when like comedy 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.200 used to be like real binary. You were either like 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.960 Jim Carrier Robin Williams, or you were a stand up 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.840 you know in clubs, or you were on SNL. And 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.240 then like there became this like alt comedy scene and 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.280 uh kind of kind of intersecting with like mumblecore, where 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.040 like weirdness was allowed to kind of come up. And 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.200 that's when like UCB was kind of getting into the 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.840 planting its seeds in the New York comedy scene and 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.120 making this like sort of third space, this third weirder space. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.680 And my brother was going to NYU and I was 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.120 still in high school, and he was like telling me 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.800 about this scene emerging, and we like planned to get 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.880 into it when I got to the city. So Amy 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.080 was one of the founders of UCB, and my brother 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.400 and I and Abby at the same time time had 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.920 been taking classes there. And I think it was almost 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.640 like we prepared for the opportunity to meet her because 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.520 we asked her to be in our thirty fifth webisode, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.200 this the finale, and so then we have this like 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.440 huge portfolio of work that she could look at, and 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.720 we didn't ask her to be a part of it. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.160 We asked her to you know, feature in it. It 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.760 was a cold ask, and we were like a generation 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.559 a part where our teachers had been her students. Before 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.280 she got on SNL, way before Parks, she was teaching improv. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.560 This was like funny, like funny enough, I think years ago, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.600 like in her I don't know whatever press periods, she 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.439 was always like I could always fall back on teaching 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.640 improv again always, you know, can you imagine taking improv 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.000 from Amy Poehler like that is magic and then also 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.960 also funny because like, sure, I can idealize her, but 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.480 she was probably a human being and complex and tired 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.360 at some points or annoyed at some points, Like that 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.319 is just so funny to imagine. So our improv teacher, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.839 like the head of UC at the time, had been 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.040 her student, and we were like, would you ever consider 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.360 forwarding an email to her? You know, like we didn't 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.439 even like ask very directly, but he was like, yeah, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.160 she's gonna love this. And then it turned out she 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.120 had heard about us already. And then the ass was 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.400 so I think finite and specific and you could grasp 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.280 it right. It's a one scene featuring in one scene, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.840 and we'll shoot it wherever, wherever the hell you want. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.080 So she chose around the corner from her house. She 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.280 has two boys under four years old. At this point, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.760 she and her baby and her youngest her nanny, walked 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.200 around the corner from her apartment. We were already set up, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.880 ready to go, and we got her out in an hour. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.120 My parents drove from Long Island and we filmed out 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.440 the back of their car. The director and DP of 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.600 that episode shooting a camera out the trunk of the 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.920 prius and Amy and us were running down Cherry Lane. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:02.080 I mean, just crazy without me, save yourself. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.760 You just leave her one set in my bag a lot. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.960 I mean, I'm telling you, it's like still, I'm just like, damn, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.199 was that a dream? You know, Like I'm so oh 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.600 my gosh, so grateful for these memories in my mind 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.840 and body. So we had a good time, Like we 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.120 had a We got along very well and like lightly 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.640 touched on expanding and we were like already planning to 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.080 pitch it and writing a pilot to uh to pitch 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.480 and go to LA for a couple months and try 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.560 to sell it. And I feel like Jonah Hill was 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.000 like also looking at the web series and we were 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.280 like yeah, Like Jonah Hill is like you know, asked 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:46.400 about it, just like yeah, yeah, and she was like okay, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.040 all right. But then afterwards we like sent her the 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.680 episode and we had created these parties around a season 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.920 one and a season two, so we had this event 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.600 around the season two and people were like dying that 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.920 she was on screen when we showed it, and then 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.240 we formally asked her if she would want to attach 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.440 as executive producer and she did and we were planning 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.120 already to go to La and pitch it, but this 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.080 time we were bringing Amy with us and it was phenomenal. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.360 We met her after that, after she agreed to be 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.120 a part of it, and we had a pitch in 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.280 a script, but we really needed her scope and her purview. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.079 We met up for lunch and she had like a 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.079 legal pad with notes about what she loved about thirty 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:32.280 four of the webisodes and that I was like floating 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:33.520 out of my body. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:35.600 Before they knew it. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.920 Broad City was picked up and greenlit by Comedy Central, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.800 and it quickly had a cult following. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:42.920 Throughout its five season run. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.120 The show received critical acclaim and has been ranked among 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.760 the best television shows of the twenty tens. Night They 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.480 are the creators, writers, and stars of Comedy Central's Great 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:54.000 broad City. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:54.600 Plea was welcome. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.680 Ho me tell you're sending a lot of geyser. Come on, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:00.840 I've not seen the show. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:01.680 It is very funny. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.080 I probably it's called broad City. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.120 You can watch it Wednesday night, ten thirty on Comedy Central. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:07.760 That's Abby and Alana everybody. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.520 But I feel like there's so many pieces in there 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.880 that are applicable for people in any industry in any phase, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.640 Like you know, you guys were scrappy and putting it 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.200 together and you willed it and you put the work 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.880 in and you put it together and there's this dream 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.320 icon Amy Poehler, and you found a way not just 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.240 to get to her, but also to make it workable 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:31.600 for her. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.240 Yeah, and like there's this like the scrappiness is something 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.760 that I'm still accepting about myself. And I have to say, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.640 like it's kind of entire like a sense of entitlement, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.880 Like shouldn't it be more like streamlined or sleek the process? 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.080 Like even this movie Babes Babes was as scrappy as 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:55.440 making broad City, the web series like crazy. And Pamela 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.000 Adlon is so scrappy too, And Michelle Buto has been 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.880 doing comedy for twenty three years. I mean we just 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.960 did Hoda and Jenna the other morning and it was 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.720 like a trivia question she used to do, like stand 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.040 up in a strip club and her payment was like 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.920 hot food, you know, like we have just And Pamela 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.960 is the scrappiest, Like the texture of her voice is 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.800 her character, you know what I mean, Like she's down 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.040 to get down and dirty, and like you know when 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.760 we were making Babes. I was like, damn, like I 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.320 wish this was. It was an indie movie, it was 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.320 a small budget. We made it like hardcore. And Jeff 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:31.480 Kimmer cinematographer, an elegant man, a man of beauty, like 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.160 made this movie look like it cost twenty five million dollars, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.400 thirty million dollars. It looks like a nor Efron movie, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.920 or a or a Rob Reiner or a jud movie. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.600 But like it was so scrappy and it was seven 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.760 million dollars. It was a scrappy indie movie that especially 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.320 in New York City. Your dollar doesn't go afoot in 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.360 New York City. And I don't know talking about this 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.240 today and like remembering how that was actually the sort 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.080 of like I'm thinking of guitar string, like the vibration 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.840 on which we were meeting Amy, It's like that's who 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:03.960 I am. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.920 As I do these interviews, it's always so interesting to 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.400 live in both the past and the present with each guest, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.120 to listen to them as they discover their connections between 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.600 what they did pre pivot and how it brought them 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.960 to this moment. After the advertisements, Alana talks about her present, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.880 her latest project, Babes, which lives in that same guitar 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.720 string she spoke about in Doing What She Does Best. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.600 Alana and her co writer Joshua Binowitz ridge the complexities 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.680 of friendship, pregnancy, and parenting, all while being hilarious and 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.240 deeply honest. It's a movie that showcases the wit and 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.520 intelligence we all know and love for Milana more after 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:50.240 the break. Okay, So I want to hear about Babes 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.160 as a parent and specifically as a mom of three. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.480 I was so excited when I heard about this film. 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.600 Babes is the story of two best friends who are 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.760 in very different places their lives. Don played by Michelle Buteaux, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.160 has two kids and a husband, sort of a standard situation, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.160 and my character Eden is a free spirit and spontaneous 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:14.080 and naive, completely clueless to the responsibilities that it takes 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.560 to have a child. And when she gets pregnant by 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.760 a one night stand, she decides to keep the baby 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.040 and it tests the friendship of Eden and Down played 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.440 by me and Michelle Buteau, this movie is I gotta 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:27.480 tell you, gotta be honest. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:28.200 It's hilarious. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.080 It's so funny you're missing jokes in the theater it's 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.360 worth seeing in the theater to laugh with your damn neighbor, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.920 and then the cries sneak up on you. People keep 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.920 telling me I did not know I was gonna be 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.200 crying three times, and I'm loving it. I'm starting to 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:44.720 get addicted to those tears. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.440 Crying my eyes out. I just got out of the 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.880 New Babes movie. It was like a release premiere thing, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.200 and they did like a Q and A in the beginning. Anyway, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.720 Alana Glazer and Michelle Buteau. I love this movie so much. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:03.560 It really touches on like how friendships change after one 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.840 or the other have a baby in the most beautiful 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.840 way possible. Bitch. All I can say is, go watch 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.600 it now, bitch, go watch it. Really. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:22.840 Am I pregnant? Yeah, single mom? She may not keep the. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:27.920 Baby in choice right right? Single that's friend gets so 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.800 screwed over in adulthood. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:34.160 You and me, we're family. I'm scared of the decision 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.639 I made, but it just feels like destiny, and this 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.360 is Destiny's in file. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:40.679 The baby. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:47.320 So I am taking more pleasure in this press period 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.680 for my new movie Babes that I have in press 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.160 periods prior. I'm taking more genuine pleasure, enjoying it more 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:56.720 than I have before. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.760 West twenty twenty four. I am beyond thrilled to be 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.640 here with the team behind Babes. Your movie was wonderful. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:08.359 I love so much about it, in particular your chemistry together, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.199 your friendship. It just like radiates off the screen and 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:12.040 it filled my heart. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:17.600 Oh boy, this movie is so good. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:18.320 Thank you. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.840 And it's so funny, and you're so good in it, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.520 and I'm just I'm thrilled to death for it. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.360 Thank you. Yeah, it's are you? Are you excited? 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:25.840 Boy? 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.920 It's coming out? When is it coming out? It's coming 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.800 out in select cities May seventeenth, and expands and expands 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:35.080 the twenty fourth. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:36.600 Did you yourself? Personally? 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:41.480 Everybody is DJ Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamage, the guy. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.640 We are the breakfast club. We got some special guest 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.080 in the building who keep a job. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:50.199 Both from the new film day. Also, press is like 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:51.840 such an insane part of the job. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.360 But to do it with Michelle we have been just left. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:55.360 Its sloopy. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.480 I don't I haven't figured out my dosage yet, but 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.159 I don't need it. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.359 Just do press, you know what I mean? So Babes 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:03.159 is interesting. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:08.199 I feel like this through line between Broad City with 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.760 a number of pieces that you did in between and 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.000 then coming now to Babes. Like the reason that I 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.960 do this podcast is to kind of show like the 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.600 intersection of personal and professional when we have this narrative 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.280 that everything professional we do is just for professional factors, 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.440 like that's a good job, it's a good movie, like's 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.600 I made that decision, And then we also try to 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.080 cover up things when we make them for personal reasons, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.840 so like if you leave the workforce to like have 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.720 a kid or take care of a sick parent or 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.280 move or something, we like come up with these ridiculous 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.679 reasons why we did instead of just saying why we 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.199 made these choices, Like how have you thought about this 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.000 intersection of personal and professional? 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.600 I feel like there's this conversation ten years ago of 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:53.200 like women compartmentalizing, and it like feels so like harsh 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.560 and untrue and binary to me of kind of what 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.800 you're saying of like separating these pieces and keeping them distant. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.760 It has been hard to sift through and organize and 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:09.159 understand and hold all of it because Abby's name is 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.520 Abby and my name is Alana and that was our 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.440 character's names. And I chose Wexler and that's my mom's 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.679 maiden name. And Abbie chose Abrams for her character's last name, 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.320 and that's her grandma's made a name. I think a 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.639 big something that's been that feels very different for me 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.399 in a personal sense is that broad City was like 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.800 this character that I wished I could be. She was 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.920 so free and she was so wild, you know. And 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.440 I think, especially once Broad City became a thing, even 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.080 a web series that people knew, but especially on TV, 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:46.199 like a sort of painful self awareness kicked in where 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.320 I was not as free as the character was. And 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.720 with Babes it's been it's been so you know, broad City. 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.040 I learned absolutely everything I've learned. I learned everything I 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.960 know about this business from Broad City. We made fifty episodes, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:05.080 and ending broad City choicefully was like also kind of 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.920 a miracle, you know, creatively, I think as artists it's 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:12.119 a rare opportunity to be able to choose an ending. 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.600 And with Babes, I mean, just the pleasure I took 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.280 in the process, having gone through all the training in 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.520 the boot camp of broad City, it was like it 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.800 was so fun I felt like I was returning to 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:27.200 camp actually, and it was really fun. And I think 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.280 my character of Eden and Babes like I'm pushing less 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.600 and more just like being being her more rather than 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.639 like conjuring and adding and jumping and leaping. You know, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.240