CinemaCon: Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell make really, really 'Bad Moms'
LAS VEGAS — Kristen Bell is a long way from Princess Anna of Arendelle with her role in Bad Moms.
Actually, Bell is several tequila shots away from anything Frozen as she joins Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn in the raunchy comedy, which showed off a wild-style extended first look Tuesday at CinemaCon 2016.
STX Entertainment's Bad Moms was perhaps even more shocking than Paramount's presumably R-rated Baywatch, which showed off bawdy behavior at the convention of theater owners and executives just the night before.
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In Bad Moms (in theaters July 29), Bell's, Kunis' and Hahn's characters grow tired of trying to be good mothers in a town run by perfect-mom bullies, played by Christina Applegate, Bridesmaids writer Annie Mumolo and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Yes, that's right, Pinkett Smith like you've never seen her before.
"I haven’t done a rated-R comedy," Pinkett Smith said during a spirited group discussion onstage. "I’m ready to be outrageous and a little filthy."
Make that a lot filthy. She definitely hit that mark, as do many of the film's stars once they throw away the burden of "goodness" and rebel from Applegate's PTA president (who organizes a gluten-, sugar- and anything-else-free bake sale).
Kunis, who knows her way around a filthy comedy (Ted), talked about mothering her own child, daughter Wyatt Isabelle, with Ashton Kutcher.The "bad moms" start enjoying fast cars, pouring sugary cereals down their throats in a grocery-store aisle and even (gasp) watching movies during the day.
"It’s awesome. She’s 18 months. That’s all we talk about when we get together," said Kunis, adding that Wyatt shows no fear of anything. "She’s crazy. I don’t know understand how (children) are all alive."
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Applegate, who plays the morally upright parent this time around, gave the best story about "bad" child-raising with her real daughter Sadie Grace, 5.
"My daughter, when she was 2, slammed the car door in our face. Without even thinking, my husband (Martyn LeNoble) and I both flipped her off," said Applegate. "We looked at each other and were like, 'My God, we’re horrible people.'"
