Bad Moms- why cast Mila Kunis?

[Katz]

Just seen the advert for this new film, and the poster showing Mila Kunis as the lead role.

I know she's a great actress but why cast a 33 year old to be the mother of based on the preview are children who are at least 11 or 12?

All the other 'Bad Moms' are actresses in their late 30s early 40s?

I was looking forward to this film, had only read reviews of what it was going to be about but this will annoy me!

Bullock not Bumlick (I'm being sarcastic btw if no one can tell)

Oh gosh,mI'd completely forgotten Michael Douglas existed! Eurgh, letch extraordinaire. Revolting man; I stopped watching anything with him in in the 80s.

DD will be 14 when I'm 33.

I love Mila Kunis.

Sorry didnt mean to bring up Michael's women are nutjob films

I'm very early 20s and have 4 month old twins, planned pregnancy too

Ds will be 16 when I'm 33. I also own a nice home, have a degree and a professional career. So it isn't so far fetch to imagine Milas character having that sort of life.

She's really good in it, plays the part v well.
Part of the plot is that she met her husband at high school, had kids young etc. now that she's a bit older she decides to 'rebel'.
It's a funny film!

OP, I thought that too until I saw the film and realised that was part of the plot. I don't think that it's her age exactly, it's just that she went from always being cast as the young love interest to being a mum of teenagers in one fell swoop. And it's also kind of indicative of Hollywood's complex relationship with women over the age of 35.

And I say this as someone who has recently turned 41 with a coming up to 20 year old. DH is 40. We were the youngest of his friends' parents by 10 years when he started school.

This is just my impression, but there seems to be a much higher rate of 'childhood / high school sweethearts' in America - where couples get together in high school, and just stay together. Even the phrase is very American.

It's not something which really happens here a lot, or that I noticed a great deal of in the UK either (obviously it does happen - I know of couples, but my impression is not to the same extent).

So yes, you probably would get a fair number of middle class kids meeting each other in high school, sticking together through university (college), and then having children very young.

I had a 13,12,10 and 8 year old when I was 33!

Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren NEVER get roles.. Neither does Julia Roberts or Sandra Bumlick

You forgot judge dench.. But then you'd have all five. How many males over 50 are still playing the sexy love interest? If you want to pretend to be completely obtuse go ahead but you're not going to convince anyone.

I'm not being obtuse but it's boring people moaning about a youngish female playing the part of a mum when the entire point of the film is that she is/was a young mum

What I've always found odd about the forties/fifties man with the twenty something (unless it's part of the plot) is often these romantic pairings are in the sort of girly movies aimed at teenage girls - Who are very often not attracted to men who are 'old.'

I understand a lot of cinema is from the male gaze and stuff, but how does it stroke a man's ego to have a much older man playing a part in a movie he'll likely never see?

Thank GOD those days seem to be over. The only recent big age difference I remember was in Tarzan, but they didn't look like father and daughter, they looked similar in age.

I get the OPs point. Whilst not impossible clearly I do think it's uncommon to have kids at that age THESE DAYS.

I was 33 with my first and the youngest in my antenatal. There are no mums in their twenties in reception class at school. Late thirties to mid forties is the norm.

I love Mila Kunis though.

I really think it is your own experience if you live in your own bubble you dont see it but I do see a lot of young women with babies i really is not that unusual these days

I have a 13 year old at 32 ??? We then went on to have another 3 . Yes I'm still married and yes we had them young . So what is your problem ??? YABVU

Careforadrink I'm sorry I totally disagree. I don't know where your from but at my dcs school there is a vast range of ages of mums. You being the youngest at an ante natal group at 33 seems very rare. I'm guessing you are talking about not classes?

Nct classes. Autocorrect grrr

I think OP was making a point about Hollywood, which is valid. I think it is getting better with Bridesmaids, Ghost busters etc. I think part of the problem is the prevalence of big budget superhero films, where the casting of hot young women in skintight outfits are just shoved in, because so much money is spent on effects with no regard to plot or character, that they need to appeal to the lowest common denominator to make money. I also think in the past, actresses would have been expected to give up their careers entirely when they had children, so would have dropped off the radar between 30 and 50 didn't help. Now most successful actresses have children and carry on working.

I don't know, I actually kind of agree with the OP.

I saw the film and liked it a lot, and I like Mila Kunis. And obviously there are a lot of women having children that young and even younger. I know plenty of women who did/do.

BUT in the US it is rare for a woman in that lifestyle. Again, I know plenty of women who have children in their early twenties or late teens, but I live in the rural midwest.

My uncle and aunt live the sort of life portrayed in the film. I went to visit them years ago and their friends were stunned that he, in his late 30s, had a 19 year old niece and that his brother (my dad) was only a few years older than he was. My uncle and his wife didn't have children then but have one daughter now, who is only a year older than my own son. In their circle having children in your 20s at all is odd, let alone your early twenties.

I remember this same argument coming up in an article I read about the movie This is 40...the author said it just wasn't plausible for a pair of 40 year olds to live the life the characters did and have a 13 or 14 year old daughter. So the OP isn't the only one!

I do like that Bad Moms at least acknowledged it. However I don't think it was crucial to the plot; I think that they wanted Mila in the role and shoehorned that stuff in.

I think everyone is being oddly defensive! The OP didn't say there was anything WRONG with having children in your early 20s, just that it was strange for the role.

Horsey

Just bog standard NHS antenatal classes of about 25 women.

I'm in the north east. Fairly affluent area. No school mums in their twenties in ds reception class of average size.

Not saying it doesn't happen. But just not the norm these days in my experience so I can understand the op.

I was 19 when pregnant with my first. I looked about 12. I never did ante natal classes because I couldn't bare the thought of being judged.
Maybe that's why your the youngest there?
Lots of my friends who had DC early 20s did not do antenatal classes

My 8 year old has friends with mums aged 40 and 48. I am 28.

It always naked me laugh in films set in the US that perfectly ordinary families live in 10 bedroom mansions with fabulous careers yet must have been having babies throughout their college years and the early part of their careers! But I suppose that's the same as all Brits living in townhouses in Notting Hill despite being teachers! Hollywood mainstream films are hardly ever realistic😁

Makes me laugh. I'm fully dressed at all times