By Rebecca Ford. Senior Awards Editor. Westfeldt stars as a woman who wants a child, but not a romance, with a platonic pal Adam Scott. Jennifer Westfeldt , who wrote and starred in the indie hit Kissing Jessica Stein , seemed to have everything working against her when it came to making her latest film, Friends With Kids. Adam Scott read the part of Jason at that very first reading and Westfeldt says that she had him pegged for the part ever since. At the end of the reading, the crowd was on its feet cheering.
In addition to a tight shooting schedule, Westfeldt was taking on the challenge of directing this project. Kissing Jessica Stein followed a straight woman who surprises herself when she falls in love with another woman. Friends With Kids takes on the convention of marriage-then-babies by asking if life would be better if you had a baby, but protected your love life by dating someone else. In her own life, Westfeldt and Hamm are not married and have no children.
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