No, that was not actress Betty Gilpin’s nude body in Office Romance.
Gilpin, 39, portrays Sydney Bloom, a pregnant executive at Cruz Air run by CEO Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez). At one point in the film, Sydney confronts in-house lawyer Daniel Blanchflower (Brett Goldstein) about his clandestine romance with boss Jackie when her water breaks in his office.
Sydney subsequently gives birth on a desk in Daniel’s office, in front of him and Jackie, with cameras capturing the moment the baby was crowning.
“Honestly, I was pretty freaked out when I first saw the prosthetic vagina,” Gilpin told Variety in an interview published Saturday, June 6. “I had a nervous breakdown and then I was like, ‘Oh, but I’ll be holding the ultimate working mom’s hand, Jennifer Lopez, so what could go wrong?’”
To capture the shot, Gilpin used prosthetic legs and a vagina for the scene.
“My real legs were below a table, [I had] fake prosthetic legs, and then a puppeteer was standing at my real legs pushing an animatronic baby out of my prosthetic vagina,” she recalled of the process to the outlet. “It made it sound like [popping]. It was insane.”
Gilpin continued, “The saddest part was when the scene was over and everybody but the puppeteers stayed in the room because the only way to reset was to go under and pull the fake placenta — I think the placenta is not in the movie anymore — but reach up through the prosthetic vagina that I am still zipped into, pull the placenta back and take the umbilical cord and pull it back and then pull the baby back through, and then it was time to do it again.”
Goldstein, 45, cowrote Office Romance with Ted Lasso collaborator Joe Kelly.
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“When we were making Ted Lasso season 3, we were at Manchester City filming there, and on the train back to London, we were like, ‘What should we do next?’” Goldstein said on Late Night With Seth Meyers earlier this week. “We both love rom-coms, and we were like, ‘Let’s do an old school rom-com.’ And we were like, ‘Who’s the best person to do a rom-com with?’ And we both were like, ‘J. Lo, obviously.’”
He added at the time, “We wanted to do, like, a more grown-up one that I hadn’t seen her do before. So, she’s the CEO in this one, like, she has it all and she’s very good at her job. It was a love letter to workaholics.”
Office Romance is currently streaming on Netflix.
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