Aubrey Plaza is doing well

Aubrey Plaza has had A Year. In January of 2025, her estranged husband, Jeff Baena, died by suicide, and Plaza, known for her wit and her deadpan delivery, retreated from what little public profile she has (compliment, she keeps it tight). She has reemerged, though, appearing on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, and now, more recently, confirming in the unavoidable way of things that she is expecting her first child with her partner, actor Christopher Abbott. This was how a lot of us found out Plaza and Abbott were dealing.

Plaza is also professionally busy, launching a new animated series, Kevin, which she created and is producing through her Evil Hag banner. The series will stream on Prime Video, the trailer is really cute.

Aubrey Plaza has a strong circle of friends, many of whom are comedians, so the voice talent for the show is GREAT. Besides Plaza voicing a character, the voice cast includes Amy Sedaris—already a vocal performance legend for her role as Princess Caroline on Bojack Horseman—Cary Elwes, Charles Melton, Jason Schwartzman, Whoopi Goldberg, Quinta Brunson, Tig Notaro, Patti Lupone—an Agatha All Along coven connection—Nicole Byer, Maria Bamford, Debby Reynolds, Addison Rae, Joe Locke—another coven connection—and THE John Waters.

Plaza and Waters have been linked professionally for a while now, and frankly, they are a match made in cinema heaven. Waters wants to direct her in an adaptation of his own novel, Liarmouth, but says “no one will give us money”. Absolute loser behavior from Hollywood. All these billionaires trying to own the world, why won’t any of them fund fun movies like this? All I’m saying is, if I had $1 billion dollars—or even just like, $10 million—I would absolutely fund a John Waters/Aubrey Plaza movie and I would not care if it made money. Anyway, it’s good to see Aubrey Plaza doing well and still finding a way to work with John Waters, even if everyone in Hollywood is too dumb to fund their unique brand of co-mingled madness.

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What else happened today…

Ben McKenzie married Morena Baccarin after a messy get-together while they were both working on Gotham. Don’t condone cheating blah blah blah but they seem super settled now and it’s adorable when she pops up in the trailer for McKenzie’s documentary about cryptocurrency. I’ve had a crush on Morena Baccarin since Firefly, and one on Ben McKenzie ever since he turned into the sane voice in the room on the crypto scam. Bless these crazy not-kids! Morena looks predictably great in Naeem Khan, btw. (Go Fug Yourself)

RFK Jr. Please Stop Talking About The Weird Sh-t You Do To Animals By The Side Of The Road Challenge (Celebitchy)

The headline says it all “Melissa Etheridge chose David Crosby over Brad Pitt to father her kids”. Good call, Melissa. Good call. (Pajiba)

Louise Story writes about the places we visit and how we visit them, when we take time and when we “check the box”, and what it means when meaningful places become boxes to be checked. A melancholy read for a rainy Thursday afternoon. Or maybe it’s sunny where you are. That’s not my business. (Atlas Obscura)