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How are you?
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A little crazy, I'm seeing things.
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Honey, me too.
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I'm having the wildest mommy brain lately.
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I don't, I don't think it's mommy brain.
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I want to start with a really specific point
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which is, I love the line, well, okay, so Lucy,
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something goes wrong,
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she goes online, and then later Pierce Brosnan's doctor
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tells her there'll be no more Googling.
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Which I think is such a brilliant line.
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First of all, I'm curious,
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I mean, are you like a WebMD user?
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Is that your go-to when, no.
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I don't look at comments.
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I will not WebMD.
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I will text my health care provider,
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best friends, which I'm lucky to have two of them.
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I, no, no comments, no WebMD.
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Yeah.
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Oh, it's too scary.
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It's such a rabbit hole.
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It's addictive.
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It's like the most, the grossest form of addiction.
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Diagnosing yourself off,
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Yeah, yeah.
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its designed to make you think of it
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like you're in Atlantic City, you know, gambling.
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It's awful.
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Are you the type of person that's like, something's wrong.
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I'm going to figure out what's happening myself.
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Oh my God, are you kidding me?
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I usually, by the time I get to my doctors,
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I'm usually diagnosed what's wrong with me.
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Yes.
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I'm just going to them for a second opinion.
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But I already know what's wrong.
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I am so WebMD person.
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My dad is a doctor, my sister's a doctor,
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my husband's dad was a doctor.
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I mean, I'm just, I think I'm an amateur doctor.
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And I am obsessed with WebMD.
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Absolutely, I Google everything.
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That's funny.
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And I mean right with your family.
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It's like, you can just call or text them
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at anytime and be like, what's this mean?
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I always say to people, I always say
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I don't think I'm ever going to die
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because I have an uncle for any ailment that may befall me.
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I just have an uncle I can call and say,
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okay my left eye's twitching.
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What does it mean?
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Yeah.
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'Cause you're an eye doctor.
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I'm very aware that WebMD is like
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one of those infographics that always leads you to cancer,
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and I'm just not even,
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That's so true.
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That's where I actually will trust the doctor,
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but I will say what's been so cool about this,
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and now, even in prepping
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for the show that I have coming out,
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to dive so deep into this world of fertility,
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and then for my show to dive so deep
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into the world of cardiovascular surgery, heart health,
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you know, all of these issues,
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what I've been learning about the medical system is,
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at times very inspiring, and at other times very appalling.
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Which is kind of how I feel about being a human.
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Yeah, sure.
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The world is awe-inspiring and full of magic
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and full of good people and there's like
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a horror movie waiting everywhere.
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So, that was sort of our, our way into this.
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And, and I suppose that's why it's effectual,
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because the more specific, the more universal.
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And so, I don't try to figure out how I might be feeling,
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you know on the Google machine.
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But, I do really encourage research.
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But of course, the deeper reading
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of that line kind of taps into some of the themes
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of this where it's like,
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okay of course he doesn't want her online
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because knowledge is power,
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he's trying to insert his control wherever he can.
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I'm curious if you could talk a little bit
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about that side of the film.
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It's one of the many things like mommy brain
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that gets thrown out a bunch,
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that we're learning how Lucy is getting the control
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just sapped out of her at all times.
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Yeah, you know, it's funny.
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Okay. So I'm 34 weeks pregnant currently.
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Congrats.
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Thank you.
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And I have to say, mommy brain is kicking in,
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where I'm like, I really am slowing down,
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and my capacity is, thinning.
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As are parts of my body, and then others are widening.
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But for most of my pregnancy I was like,
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I'm a fucking genius.
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And you know, I was like mommy brain?
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I'm on my shit right now.
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I'm on top of the game, you know,
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it's like, I was like super sharp.
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I think for the first time,
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I truly for the first time in my life,
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I'm finally having limits around, you know,
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comedians want to please everybody,
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and artists are, want approval.
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Artists want approval, right?
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And there's this struggle of like capping that
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and being like, well what do you want to make?
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Type of thing.
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So, I think my mommy brain has been super sharp
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because I've been having to actually have a container around
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what I give to others, knowing what I believe
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is the right answer here,
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and just being like, bam, bam, bam, you know?
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Yeah. So I'm, I find like these concepts that we have
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around the, you know, weakness of the female body,
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the weakness that a pregnant person is enduring,
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to be false. But, not completely false.
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Just like thought of as wrong, and thought of as binary.
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It is really intense.
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Pregnant people should be supported from,
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the middle of the second trimester on.
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There should be, we have no mat leave, you know what I mean?
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It's sickening.
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And it's like, it's not that I have been so like tender,
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and sensitive, and have needed softness,
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but it's not a substitute.
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It doesn't exclude strength.
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The moment you point out about Pierce saying
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no more Googling.
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I think about it in the same way.
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There's a moment between Corgan and Lucy,
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where she looks at me,
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and is explaining how she's feeling about something,
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and why I call Corgan an agent of the patriarchy
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is because her immediate response,
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to another professional woman is, well,
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what does your husband think?
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Mhm mhm.
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And I was like, oof.
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So the husband who's not pregnant,
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his opinion means more to this pregnant lady
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about this other pregnant lady's experience.
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But we've been cultured to say, well,
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what did the doctor say?
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Well, you know, you're obviously very emotional.
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What does your husband say?
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And it's like, maybe I'm just tapped in.
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The mommy brain thing that keeps getting thrown out there,
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like, it's just.
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It's like a dagger in my heart.
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Yeah, they're weapons.
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It makes me wanna gag every time I hear it.
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I feel like so many of our very best thrillers,
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horror movies, especially of the past decade or so,
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do you have this really strong, thematic undercurrent,
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these social themes that are at play here.
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And I'm curious, like why do you think that horror
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has become such an ideal vessel for cultural commentary?
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What makes horror the best way to tell these stories?
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Well Cameron, we live in horrifying times.
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That's true.
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We live in horrifying times, especially the last year.
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It's been one, shit show.
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And, but also I think we, I think it's just human nature.
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We love, you get to really go there
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when you tell stories and you don't shy away
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from the horror of reality.
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You know, the horror of reality,
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when you don't shy away from that
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you have so much more leeway
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to build such bigger stories.
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I mean, like for instance, one of my favorite films
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in recent years was Midsommar.
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And I literally could not look away.
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I just thought
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(gasps)
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there's so many, so many, so many issues happening here.
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The whole of the women, it's fertility again, right?
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Yeah.
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Women's fertility again, its the goddess,
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the goddess theme, still the woman who births a nation
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or births you know,
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how far would she go to achieve
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that goal if that's what she wants to do?
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And, I don't know why,
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I actually to be honest don't know why it's such a thing,
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in our recent cultural moments, but, you know,
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I guess things go in cycles and it's maybe time for that,
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for us to really examine the reality of life.
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And sometimes things are kind of horrifying.
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Hey, this pregnancy shit is no joke, right?
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's really scary.
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(unsettling music)
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Brilliant.