Betty Gilpin is opening up about her new movie Office Romance.
The 39-year-old actress plays Sydney Bloom in the Netflix rom-com, who is Jennifer Lopez‘s character’s pregnant right hand woman.
In the movie, Sydney gives birth and Betty recently opened up about the birthing scene and her prosthetic vagina.
“Honestly, I was pretty freaked out when I first saw the prosthetic vagina,” she told Variety‘s Marc Malkin at the movie’s Los Angeles premiere. “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?’”
She then shared how the birthing scene happened.
“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, and it made it sound like [Gilpin makes a popping sound]…It was insane,” the actress dished.
“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,” she added.
Office Romance is now streaming on Netflix – Watch the trailer here!
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