“You sick bastard!” “You sick son-of-a-bitch!” and “[You] fat pervert!” were just a few of the verbal attacks expertly launched by Mazar during the scene. But what a lot of people don’t realize is the role was a case of art imitating life. “I was excited to do it because I loved the comedy and the writing,” laughed Mazar when MediaVillage talked with her about the role. “And I was hugely pregnant for real! Yes, that was my actual stomach!
“Nobody was hiring me at that point because when you're that pregnant you become an insurance risk,” she continued. “So, to be able to go on a show, play pregnant and have fun with it, then get to converse and be funny in a hospital room was great. Jennifer Aniston is such a great comedian, and to have her on the other side of me going, ‘Oh my God,’ was really funny. I never got to see what she was doing while we shot as she was on the other side of the curtain.”