'Kinda Pregnant': Urzila Carlson reveals movie's funniest scene was more outrageous, hysterical than we saw
The South African-New Zealander, who plays guidance counsellor Fallon in Kinda Pregnant, a friend and coworker of Schumer's character Lainy, is responsible for some of the most outrageously funny lines. She's also happy to to call out how bizarre and problematic it is that Lainy is wearing a fake baby bump.
Even more impressively, most of Carlson's hysterical lines in the film were actually improvised.
"I think there's only two lines in there that was in the script, so the rest is just off the cuff stuff, and sort of back and forth with Amy, or with whoever's in the scene," Carlson told Yahoo Canada. "I'm very lucky that I was sort of just given a, 'go for it,' in this in this movie, which is amazing."
"There was so much just improving going on, on set, that I think we made every scene about an hour longer than it needed to be. But we had so much fun."
A particularly funny moment in Kinda Pregnant actually had a lot more unexpected comedy, and risk, associated with it during filming.
At one point in the movie there's a gender reveal party for Shirley (Broadway), who expecting a child with Alex Moffat's character Rawn. The concept was that someone would hit a piñata with a pink or blue interior. Unexpectedly, Shirley gives Lainy the bat the hit the piñata, but then the piñata flies into Fallon's arms, pushing her pack into the pool, and Fallon can't swim.
As Carlson explained, there was a stunt person who was set to take on that scene, but on the day, Carlson was asked to do her own stunt, which involved stepping onto a rubber pool cover before sinking into the water. As Carlson explained, there were steel bars that were connected to the cover, and would release right when she's supposed to fall into the pool water.
"I had to pick a safe word, ... legally you need to have a safe word," Carlson shared. "So Jillian Bell she goes, ... 'make a banana.' I went alright, banana."
"So they shoot it. I go in, that really heavy rubber thing closes in on me. I do, for a moment, think I am going to die, but I don't. I come out and then I have to deliver a line. ... But in my accent and while I'm flailing around pretending to drown, because my character can't swim, piñata and banana sounds very similar. Five stunt people dive into the pool to come and help me. So they're grabbing at me to try and save me, and I'm trying to deliver the line. So in that process, they nearly kill me. ... The water was so cold. And then Alex Moffat goes down the slide, and that wasn't even in the script. He's just coming in as support."
If you fell in love with Carlson in Kinda Pregnant, just like we did, you should also be excited about her upcoming North American tour in May and June, including a show in Toronto on May 23, New on May 31, Los Angeles on June 6, and ending in Vancouver on June 9.
"I love stand up. Stand up is my number one love. Everything else I do is to drive stand up, to get new stories," Carlson said. "I've also started touring to the UK more, and I've even done a tour through Europe, and the tour through Europe was amazing, because ... they don't know me as well there ... and when you can make foreign people laugh, that is the best thing."
"North America is kind of his uncharted territory for me. I've done some gigs in Canada, I've done a couple of gigs in New York, one in LA. ... I always say New Zealand and Australian audiences have been supporting me for years, and I love them, and they love me. But that means I don't trust them, because they laugh anyway, because they love me. And I love that about them. But if I go to a new territory, ... we still need to fall in love with each other. So that's what I'm looking forward to."
Kinda Pregnant is now on Netflix. Tickets are currently on sale for Urzila Carlson's "Just Jokes" tour.
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