"Initially, her character, Ava Bartlett, and her onscreen husband weren't going to have children, but the writers changed the script, making Ava pregnant. This change intensified the pressure that the couple's financial and relationship issues put them under, therefore raising the story's stakes."
"So we got a surprise pregnancy that weirdly timed out brilliantly where my due date was two weeks after we're supposed to wrap Brooklyn Nine-Nine. So we felt like, OK, this is meant to be. This feels very serendipitous. We were, after we got over our initial shock, we were very, very excited."
"Inevitably something dulls, and you get used to a scene, and you are not finding the sort of same spontaneity or inspiration in it. So when I hear that line, 'Maybe you're not going to be a good mom' - I, as Sarah, was pregnant - but when we shot the scene, Shiv wasn't."
Television productions respond to actors' pregnancies in varied ways, either concealing them with props or integrating them into storylines. Writers sometimes adjust scripts to make characters pregnant, increasing narrative stakes by introducing financial, relational, or emotional pressures. In other cases, actors' due dates serendipitously align with production schedules, prompting on-screen pregnancy decisions. Some performers keep pregnancies private during filming, resulting in unplanned continuity where a character was not originally pregnant. These choices affect performance dynamics, scene spontaneity, and audience perception while balancing actor needs and story integrity.
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