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“I
mean, romance is over. Best friends, that's where it's at,”
Adlon, the Emmy-winning star and co-creator of FX TV drama
"Better Things," told Reuters.
“I think that people will realize that. A lot of people think
that somebody is incomplete if they don't have a partner and a
family is incomplete if there aren't two parents, and it's
really not the case,” she added.
“Babes” follows the motherhood journeys of best friends Eden,
played by "Broad City" star Ilana Glazer, and Dawn, played by
Michelle Buteau, after Eden becomes pregnant following a
one-night stand and turns to Dawn, already a mother of two, for
support.
The film distributed by Neon arrives in theaters on Friday.
Adlon, Glazer and Buteau are all mothers who used their
experiences to inform the story with a combination of comedy and
heartfelt moments.
“Everybody has their own unique parenting story and between the
three of us, we were able to draw from that and, like, pick off
any memory or thing that happened from Michelle having twins,
Ilana having her first daughter and me having three girls,”
Adlon said.
Bearing that in mind, they highlighted the unique struggles the
character Eden has, as she reflects the life of a single parent.
"It's already scary trying to have a baby and having a baby with
a partner, with backup, so to do it alone, I was like 'Wow.
She's, like, so brave',” Buteau said about Eden.
Buteau added that she wished her character Dawn was a little
more supportive of Eden.
For Glazer, a stand-up comedian, “Babes” was an exciting
opportunity to show audiences that not everyone has a
conventional family.
“Your friends are kind of your life partners in a way. You have
to talk out life decisions with your friends, that was kind of
the sticking like point for us,” she said.
Similarly, Buteau, also a stand-up comedian, argues that family
norms have changed over time and blood relatives aren’t the only
ones considered kin anymore.
“I mean, I call my friends my chosen family because, many
generations ago, you had a really big family and they all lived
in a five-block radius and helped raise your kids. That's not
what it is anymore," she said. "It's your friends.”
(Reporting by Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross; editing by
Jonathan Oatis)
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