How Ilana Glazer Co-Wrote ‘False Positive’ in a ‘Moment of

Warning: Some spoilers forward.

Hulu’s latest horror movie, “False Positive,” is a departure from Ilana Glazer’s typical comedic roles and one which she is welcoming with open arms. As she sees it, it is a chance to dive right into a a lot darker script that she hopes will assist her course of on display some emotional turmoil she has struggled with off display.

“False Positive” tells the story of a girl named Lucy (Glazer) and her husband Adrian (Justin Theroux) who attempt for over two years to get pregnant and eventually discover success with an acclaimed IVF physician named John Hindle (Pierce Brosnan). The being pregnant takes, and Lucy will get pregnant with triplets — solely to search out out her being pregnant is “high risk.” She has to make an insanely tough choice: endure a fetal discount and both maintain two boys or the one lady.

Unbeknownst to Lucy, Adrian and Dr. Hindle are conspiring towards her. After some more and more intense hallucinations, Lucy begins to suspect one thing is improper together with her being pregnant — and that’s the place the plot twist thickens.

In a current interview with USA Today, “False Positive” co-writer and director John Lee stated he and Glazer had been impressed to write down the movie after each of them skilled intense private loss — Lee and his spouse went by way of a miscarriage, and Glazer misplaced an in depth pal shortly earlier than she started writing the movie.

“I was very much in a moment of loss,” Glazer advised USA Today. “This was right after ‘Broad City’ had stopped airing, and right when ‘Broad City’ started airing, I lost one of my best friends and I have not had that experience before. So that moment was all about loss for me.”

Glazer added that the emotional ending of “Broad City” in 2019 was robust to course of, and a few of these feelings got here out in “False Positive” — partly due to the movie’s darkish nature.

“The end of ‘Broad City’ was quite emotional for Abbi [Jacobson] and I to perform, and then to go into ‘False Positive,’ it was a gift because it became this container for me to exercise my feelings. Both exercise and exorcise, I guess,” Glazer stated. “I really got that experience that I think comes more with drama, I was really present in that moment.”

Working by way of these tough emotions was a combined bag for Glazer, although — she advised Vanity Fair she felt “psychologically tortured” whereas making the movie and stepping into Lucy’s character.

Lee impressed by different being pregnant horror flicks like “Rosemary’s Baby,” however he needed “False Positive” to really feel extra grounded. It nonetheless has some fantastical components that basically amp up the spooky issue, like Lucy’s hallucinations and the truth that it appears everybody near her is in on the sinister plot — however total the plot feels eerily potential. “There hasn’t really been a story that examined that feeling of confusion and loss,” Lee advised USA Today. “‘Rosemary’s Baby’ is one, but that goes into such a fantastical place and I wanted to stay more grounded.”

Glazer advised the paper that her personal being pregnant expertise (which occurred “a couple years” after making the movie) helped within the writing course of. “‘Mommy Brain’ was actually a title we were considering. But personally, I have not really been experiencing that,” Glazer stated, including that she has “sought out a de-misogynized education about pregnancy.”

Glazer’s being pregnant journey with husband David Rooklin has made her extra cynical in some methods, but in addition extra conscious of the right way to shield herself.

“I’ve found myself even angrier about the power structures, and even more incensed at the system we live in where women are second-class citizens across all socio-economic statuses, on a gradient of wealth and race and class,” Glazer stated. “I’m angrier in my physique as a result of it’s going by way of this expertise and I feel that’s…