Does Your Condom Make You Fat? | In a Gender-Flipped Reality a Man Must Get Emergency Contraception

In a world where men can get pregnant, we follow the morning after of 27 year old Owen, who wakes up with more than a hangover to fix.

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Does Your Condom Make You Fat? by Sophie King
https://www.sophie-king.com/

"In Does Your Condom Make You Fat? we had to let some moments play out seriously in order to respect our characters and the real life experiences they’re based upon. It’s not appropriate for the audience to be guffawing at Owen as he slips into his despair and frustration at the difficulty in rectifying his situation – we’re laughing empathetically at the absurdity of it all because either we’ve been there or we know someone who has. It’s one of the reasons I’m always keen to hire actors that have also come from drama, not solely comedy performance. I want them to play it straight and then the laughs will come from that, from the beats between reactions, from the nuances of their physicality, the way they deliver simple dialogue with such loaded emotion, rather than focusing on what’s the funniest one-liner gag as if we’re generating viral memes."

Read our full interview with Sophie
https://directorsnotes.com/2024/08/30...

// Credits //
Starring Angus Imrie and Juliet Cowan

Directed by Sophie King
Written by Danielle Papamichael
Cinematography by Carmen Pellon Brussosa
Produced by Siona Davis and Mustapha Webhi with Associate Producer Cat White

Supported by Panavision and Girls in Film
Made by F5, Dolphragon and Kusini Productions.

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