This article contains spoilers for the Netflix film Office Romance.
When he sat down to write his new movie Office Romance, Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein said it was his aim to come up with an “old-school rom-com” that was “more grown-up”.
This is perhaps reflected in some of the more adult humour showcased in Office Romance – and one graphic scene in particular.
Emmy nominee Betty Gilpin plays Sydney Bloom, Jennifer Lopez’s character’s right-hand woman, in the new Netflix comedy.
When we first meet Sydney, she’s already around nine months pregnant, and as the story progresses, she eventually gives birth right there in the office – with viewers getting to see pretty much all of it.
Suffice to say, this was achieved with the use of prosthetics, which she opened up about during a new interview with Variety.
“Honestly, I was pretty freaked out when I first saw the prosthetic vagina,” she recalled.
“I had a nervous breakdown and then I was like, ‘Oh, but I’ll be holding the ultimate working mom’s hand, Jennifer Lopez, so what could go wrong?’.”
Betty explained that there were more prosthetics used for the sequence than you might have realised, claiming: “My real legs were below a table, [I had] fake prosthetic legs, and then a puppeteer was standing at my real legs pushing an animatronic baby out of my prosthetic vagina.”
“It was insane,” she remarked.


