Director and screenwriter Gillian Robespierre debuted her romantic comedy “Obvious Child” at Sundance last week about raunchy Brooklyn comedian Donna Stern (played by actress Jenny Slate)
who loses her cheating boyfriend, job and then gets pregnant after a
drunken one-night stand. The movie subverts a whole bunch of traditional
romantic comedy rules. Slate’s character remains makeup less, with
tangled hair for most of the film and has a strong penchant for joking
about her bowel movements. When her one night stand with an earnest and
sweet guy ends up in pregnancy, she struggles with how to tell him about
her plans for abortion.Robespierre and Slate talked to the Wall Street Journal about their desire to portray real women and how they struggle with unplanned pregnancy.
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