“There’s not a lot from the pregnant person’s point of view,” Glazer said.
The subject of childbirth is also of particular interest to Glazer because she is the star and co-writer of a new film, “False Positive,” that casts her as a woman whose efforts to have a child draw her into a nightmarish spiral of uncertainty and deceit.
“I’m really obsessed with how in-plain-sight evil the system that we live in is,” she said.
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“We’re all told it’s a gain, gain, gain — you’re gaining a baby,” she said.
And she thought about longstanding traditions of childbirth that she regarded as inherently patriarchal and how little they had changed over time.
“I remember the first night I met her, I went down to Brooklyn where they were filming and Ilana was there, butt-naked, covered in blood,” he said.
“We’re separating ourselves from the characters, thinking it’s funny.” As shooting progressed on “False Positive,” she said she came to realize, “I’m not pretending.
Glazer thought for a moment and realized she’d had a change of heart.