Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Kinda Pregnant’ Trailer: Amy Schumer Pretends She’s Expecting in Raunchy Netflix Comedy
Amy Schumer pretends she’s a mom-to-be in the new trailer for Netflix’s R-rated comedy “Kinda Pregnant.”
In the film, Schumer plays Lainy Newton, a newly single teacher who wants to be a mother. So, she understandably gets a little jealous after discovering her best friend, Kate (Jillian Bell), is pregnant, leading Lainy to tell a slight fabrication… in the form of donning a fake baby bump. Her deception is complicated by the fact that she meets her dream man (Will Forte) while acting like she’s with child.
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“Do you ever tell, like, such a big lie you don’t know how to get out of it?” she asks in the trailer. Lainy commits to her fabrication, though, going along with the gestation of her fake baby and new relationship at the same time.
As she gets closer to Forte’s character, Lainy asks if he’s ever dated someone who’s knocked up. “You’re the least pregnant person I’ve ever dated,” he jokes. “I want them to be, like, two weeks away from dropping.”
All the while, Lainy puts the bump through the ringer, dropping into splits at the club, face-planting while doing yoga and accidentally igniting a flame on her midsection. It seems only one of Lainy’s confidants, a coworker (comedian Urzila Carlson), knows the truth — and she lets her friend have it: “How dare you walk around with that fake fucking belly? What if someone you know catches you?”
Viewers will inevitably find out when “Kinda Pregnant” drops Feb. 5 on Netflix. Tyler Spindel, the nephew of Adam Sandler, directed the film, which was produced by Sandler’s company Happy Madison. Damon Wayans Jr., Brianne Howey, Alex Moffat, Joel David Moore and Lizze Broadway round out the cast.
Schumer broke out in the 2015 comedy “Trainwreck,” which became a box office hit, before starring in 2017’s “Snatched” with Goldie Hawn and 2018’s “I Feel Pretty” alongside Michelle Williams. On the small screen, she created several shows, including the sketch comedy series “Inside Amy Schumer,” Food Network’s “Amy Schumer Learns to Cook” and “Expecting Amy,” a three-part documentary about her (real) nauseating pregnancy. More recently, she debuted her Hulu comedy “Life & Beth,” which ran for two seasons. She voiced a character in John Krasinski’s family friendly “IF” and played a small role in Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart origin story “Unfrosted,” but “Kinda Pregnant” marks Schumer’s first starring film role since “I Feel Pretty.”
“I’m striving for it to be one of the 10 funniest movies of my lifetime,” she told Variety of “Kinda Pregnant,” which she helped write. “I think it’s going to be as funny as ‘Trainwreck.’”
Watch the trailer for “Kinda Pregnant” below:
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