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GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH (OR, THE THREE WISE WOMEN)
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GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH (OR, THE THREE WISE WOMEN) Christine Baranski plays Amy’s mom, Ruth, a stickler and perfectionist who loves Christmastime and considers the holidays a competitive sport. Like everything else she does, she tackles the yuletide spirit with 100% enthusiasm, conviction, and intensity. Ruth’s overbearing ways often overshadow her softer qualities, but at the core she loves and is proud of Amy. Ruth and her husband Hank, played by Peter Gallagher, have come from Palm Beach to be in Chicago with their daughter and grandkids for Christmas. Says Todd, “If what you saw in the first movie is that Amy is a perfectionist, then Ruth is a super perfectionist. You’ll see the origins of how that began, and how you grow into that role, and how the torture of that is a learned behavior.” Says Baranski, “There is nothing more real than a family in terms of relationships, and there is no richer terrain for comedy than with mothers and daughters.” About Mila Kunis, Baranski says “Mila is just the most easygoing young actress I have ever met. I mean she’s unflappable.” The admiration is mutual as Mila says of Baranski, “I have yet to find a weakness in her. That woman is an animal. She’s killer on the trampoline, and an incredible actress and more physically fit than any one of us. She’s just so game for it all. I really admire her.” Cheryl Hines plays Sandy, Kiki’s mom. Says Todd, “Kiki and her mom are a different story. Kiki’s mom has lost her husband and since she became widowed has not really found her way. Sandy focuses all her love and adoration on Kiki, but hasn’t been able to maintain healthy boundaries in doing that. She’s clingy and overbearing. Kiki and her mother are at a crossroads in their lives when they have to endure a new conflict together to find new ground.” “Sandy can be a tad smothering,“ says Hines. “But she and Kiki are cut from the same cloth, as they are very sweet, well-intentioned people. So it’s hard for Kiki to tell her mom to stop her behavior.” About Kristen Bell, Hines says, “Kristen is very intuitive. She has great comedic timing and doesn’t break no matter how funny things get on set, and she always comes from a truthful place.” Kristen Bell loved being reunited with Hines, “I’ve known Cheryl for over ten years, and to be paired with her made me so excited as she is a super funny, outgoing lady. Sandy and Kiki are much closer in age than the other moms, as Sandy had Kiki when she was eighteen. Sandy can’t loosen her grip on Kiki, so Kiki finally has to put her foot down and say that she needs space.” 
Susan Sarandon plays Isis, Carla’s mom. Isis is a carefree stoner spirit like her daughter…and then some. Passing a joint or sharing high heeled boots, whatever the circumstance... the apple bong doesn’t fall far from the tree with this mother-daughter pair. Kathryn Hahn and a little help from email brought Susan on board. The filmmakers and Hahn both really wanted Sarandon to play Isis but weren’t sure she was available. Says Sarandon, “Kathryn Hahn actually wrote me a letter that came with the offer and I’m a big fan of hers… I think she’s enormously talented, big-hearted and brave as hell.” Kathryn wrote her an email stating, “My ovaries really need you in this movie. I feel it.” Jon Lucas says, “And Susan wrote an email back saying, ‘Who am I to argue with your ovaries?’ Which is the greatest acceptance letter of all time.” Says Todd, “With Carla you get to see what her mother was like and understand what kind of environment she grew up in and why she makes the choices she makes. In the first film we see Carla really evolve by the end of the movie, and turn into a better mom. In this film you see the exploration of that as Carla changes, so does the relationship with her mom.” On Susan Sarandon playing her mother, or acting more like her sister in the film, Kathryn Hahn had to stop in her tracks often and pinch herself that it was really happening. “I cannot believe I am in the same frame with Louise as in Thelma and Louise or from Bull Durham, or Dead Man Walking. Susan is just so game and hilarious and just jumped into this madness with both feet. She is delicious.” “My character certainly doesn’t suffer with trying to be perfect. She would be the one Antichrist in this narrative… It was hard because I think she has to be really unaware otherwise she’s just despicable, so how do you make someone really unaware without making them an idiot? I think because she wasn’t raised herself, she just has no clue and she had Carla very young. They kind of grew up together. She doesn’t judge other people. She has adjusted to the problems of her life and to the fact that she has so little and such little stability. It is just that she’s decided to be happy about it.” Says Lucas, “Its been really fun getting new blood in this film. I’ve never worked with Cheryl, Christine, or Susan before, but between all of them their experience with R-rated comedies has made it fun and unpredictable.” 
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