The best of them — such as "Knocked Up," "The Break-Up," or "Greenberg" — have simple mechanisms that could theoretically spin for hours (in fact, when I saw "Knocked Up," I imagined it had a missing hour).
I remember that, when I saw "Knocked Up" in a screening far ahead of release, I knew I had just witnessed something really new — both a new generation of comic voices unleashed and the birth of an artist.
RICHARD BRODY: Which gets back to what we were discussing before; I remember that, when I saw Knocked Up in an advance screening, I felt that comedy had been changed definitively; yet the Academy can't be bothered.
I wouldn't be able to hide my pregnancy from my family or friends in the small community where I lived--did I really want to have to explain to everyone that yes, I was knocked up, but no, I wouldn't be keeping the baby?
I was already slightly freaked out by the legion of (male) colleagues who would email me immediately I had let it be known that I was knocked up, and ask me a) when I was going to be off, and b) could it be for as long as possible, please?
Back in London, I find myself using the word "supper" quite a lot, usually to suggest the sort of informal, just-a-bunch-of-incredibly-cool-friends-round-the-kitchen-table soirée I aspire to, with something I've knocked up from the Ottolenghi cookbook.
"[I had] a sense of responsibility to my job and I suddenly felt like, 'Am I going to be disappointing everybody that I'm knocked up?' But life goes on.
But I'm pretty sure the fact that I'm knocked up is just a convenient excuse for my husband to temporarily act out his longtime domestic fantasy of separate bedrooms.
I wasn't on birth control, and the last thing I needed to tell my parents was that I got knocked up by a bartender/musician who also happened to be my boss.
