Hear
The arrival of a baby is always good news except for the scriptwriters or producers of a series or movie who have to manage, either for incorporate the pregnancy into the plot or to disguise it. Sometimes the character’s history allows the scripts to be adapted; However, in most cases creatives must resort to certain tricks to hide the actress’ belly during filming. From playing with the shots and resorting to larger clothing to using post-production digital retouching, everything is valid so that the viewer does not realize that baby is on the way.
Such was the case of Luisana Lopilato when he filmed Matrimillas, film that she played alongside Juan Minujín when she was expecting her fourth daughter, Cielo. “The wardrobe people worked a lot, they played a lot with the looks. “They tested me and failed me, they brought new clothes every day,” the actress said in a note with THE NATION, since she was in her fifth month of pregnancy when she made this production.
The case was different Jodie Foster, that five weeks before starting filming The panic room She discovered that she was going to be a mother. like the actress She had to film most of the scenes with a tight muscular shirt; it was impossible to resort to wardrobe strategies to hide her belly; So the production team decided to film all the close-ups at the beginning and wait for her to give birth for the action scenes.
From Penélope Cruz and Gal Gadot to Julia Roberts and Madonna, ten actresses who became pregnant in the middle of filming and had to resort to ingenuity, either to hide their condition or incorporate it into the script.
I’m sure you didn’t realize it, but Penelope Cruz I was four months pregnant when it filmed the fourth installment of the film Pirates of the Caribbean. The Spaniard learned the news shortly before filming began, so she immediately gathered her co-star, Johnny Depp, the producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, and the director, Rob Marshall, to inform them of her condition. “They were incredibly nice with their response, protective and generous, they took care in every step of this process to make this film,” the actress said later in an interview. While the crew advanced her scenes as much as they could, when her belly began to show she resorted to the typical baggy clothing trick, especially wearing baggy shirts. Regarding the action scenes that meant a possible risk, the actress had a double of her: her sister Mónica Cruz who bears a great resemblance to her.
Grey’s Anatomy It is one of the series that has the most seasons so it was inevitable that its protagonist, Ellen Pompeo, will get pregnant at some point. When it happened in 2009, the story was in its fifth installment and the producers had to use their ingenuity so that the most famous doctor could continue in the plot. Meredith having a child with Derek (played by Patrick Dempsey) was not an option, so they decided to hide the pregnancy with flats from the waist up and both three sizes too big. When the belly was impossible to camouflage, the creatives decided to modify the story, making Gray donate an organ to her sick father. In this way, the actress recorded most of the scenes lying down and then, she took a break until her delivery date.
Throughout the ten seasons that the series aired Friends, the protagonists went through all kinds of personal situations that they tried to hide on the set. In the case of women, both Lisa Kudrow as Courteney Cox they became pregnant; However, the creatives solved it differently. While the pregnancy of the first was included in the script of the fourth season, causing Phoebe to become her brother’s surrogate and have triplets, the belly of the second was completely hidden with loose clothing and short shots, since that her character had fertility problems.
Marcia Cross she became pregnant with twins when I was filming the third season of Desperate housewives. Since her pregnancy was at risk and she needed to rest, the scriptwriters had a brilliant idea: they moved the set to her home in Los Angeles. “They are painting the walls and putting up set decorations. Basically, they are turning Marcia’s house into Bree’s,” a source close to TV Guide magazine revealed at the time. Of course, the actress could not appear in the final episodes due to her advanced condition.
Wonder Woman It has been one of his most successful films, a film that is almost in danger when in the middle of filming Gal Gadot She found out she was expecting a baby. Fight scenes, jumping through the air and tight costumes were not compatible with her advanced pregnancy, so the production used all the tools available in front of and behind the camera. One of the most striking? The Israeli wore a green cloth on her abdominal area so that the special effects people could erase her belly in post-production. “In close-up I looked a lot like Wonder Woman. In wider shots, I looked like I was Wonder Woman pregnant with Kermit the Frog,” the superheroine joked in an interview with EW.
In the second part of The new big scam, Julia Roberts I was expecting twins. However, her condition was not an impediment for the actress to be part of the original staff. Large purses, scarves and wide coats were the producers’ strategy to hide her physical changes on screen. Of course, the interpreter made a very special request: that her personal doctor be by her side 24 hours a day during the entire filming in Rome.
Those who are fans of Sex and the City You will have noticed a detail: the fifth season of the series has only eight chapters. The motives? Its protagonist, Sarah Jessica Parker, became pregnant and the filming had to be shortened. A child in Carrie’s life would have been incompatible with the journalist’s lifestyle, so the writers decided not only to film fewer episodes but also to use her extensive wardrobe to hide the actress’ belly. The one who did incorporate her pregnancy into the plot was her partner, Cynthia Nixonwho also became pregnant while filming her son, Samuel.
“I am the only person who can play Evita,” he said. Madonna in LOS40 two years before director Alan Parker chose her to represent Perón’s wife in the cinema. However, her role was almost at risk when the queen of pop confessed that she was pregnant with her daughter Lourdes. Delaying the filming of the film for a few months was not an option, so the costume and set design department had to work hard so that her condition on the screen would not be noticeable.
