On The Late Show, Aubrey Plaza talks playing her first mom, really wanting to be Catwoman
Well, that finally happened. After spending much of her time at Parks And Recreation playing de facto weirdo mother figure to boyfriend/husband/human Labrador Retriever Andy Dwyer, Aubrey Plaza has been cast as her first ever onscreen mother in the Child’s Play remake. In the clip shown on Friday’s Late Show, Plaza’s harried horror movie mom deals with her young son’s adamant belief that his new Chucky doll is walking around stabbing everybody with the sort of no-nonsense yet vaguely irritated concern appropriate to the traditionally thankless disbelieving mother role. The Ingrid Goes West star, however, did bring some of that gleam-eyed mischievous intensity to her part that made it seem like she and screen offspring Gabriel Bateman were engaged in something of a familial war of wills—and equals. Which makes sense since, as Plaza told Colbert, she and Bateman were, at the time, embroiled in the sort of on-set prank war that was more sibling nasty than lovingly maternal.
