Trophy Wife on ABC #ABCTVEvent

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Have you seen Trophy Wife on ABC yet? Oh, I have!  If you haven’t seen it yet; it airs on ABC Tuesday nights at 9:30/8:30 central.  I was given the amazing opportunity to meet Malin Akerman from Trophy Wife and the executive producers of the show.  What an amazing day that was!  A blogger from Baton Rouge and I sat down and chatted with Malin Akerman for a bit and found out that she will be working in Baton Rouge in April and wants to come to a crawfish boil…..with us!  Oh yes!  Just read below:

@bloggingmomof4 @_TiffanyJCruz @FamLuvStuff @acadianathrifty thanks for the chat ladies! I’ll be hitting you up for that crawfish 😉

— Malin Akerman (@MalinAkerman) March 13, 2014

I have to say, that was one of the highlights of my trip 😀  Malin was very down-to-earth and her eyes lit up when she talked about her 10 month old son.  Being a mom is so amazing the way it gives you an instant bond with other moms 😀

About Trophy Wife:

From ABC:  “They say third time’s a charm and reformed party girl Kate (Malin Akerman) is hoping that’s true when she becomes the third wife of a slightly older man, Pete (Bradley Whitford).  The fell into each other’s arms (literally) at a karaoke bar, and flash forward a year later, Kate finds herself with an instafamily complete with three step-children and two ex-wives.  But Kate is determined to make this work and become a part of the family no matter what.”

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We watched the wedding part two and sat down with the executive producers Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern.  I LOVED what they had to say about how the show came about.  The chemistry of the entire cast is incredible and is a perfect combination for a great comedy!  Here are a couple of the questions we asked the executive producers and their answers.

How did you come up with the idea for Trophy Wife?

Sarah Haskins: We’re the creators, so we came up with the idea together. It’s very loosely based on my life. I married an older man who’d been married a few times before and has children from those different marriages. Kind of like Malin Akerman’s character, without rocking the short shorts.

It’s a situation that while unique and highly specific, is also very universal. People have dealt with divorce and co-parenting. It’s very common and we thought has a place on TV.

How’d you come up with the specific characters? Who were the influences?

Sarah: We talked about my emotional reactions to meeting my husband’s exes. His first wife is super intimidating. She’s French and she’s a lawyer and she went to Brown and blah blah blah. So she was so intimidating that we took that intimidating factor and made that Diane. I think everyone probably has an experience with an intimidating ex who you don’t want to hear about.

And then the Jackie character came out of dealing with the boundaries of a blended family. No one in particular. It’s just hard to say where your nuclear family ends and your everybody family begins. And Jackie is someone who is strongly on the everybody is family portion of the spectrum. That’s just a fun character to have.

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