Amy Poehler has a plan to bond with her sons: Make a TV show they can watch together.
The actress and writer’s new Fox animated series, “Duncanville,” is about a gangly, awkward teenage boy and his family, and Poehler is voicing both the mom, Annie, and Duncan. And considering she has two young sons (with ex-husband Will Arnett), she had a lot of help figuring out how to make the series, due to premiere in February.
“I do the voice of a mom and son. So the mom is really, frankly, just based on my own mom, a Boston mom who is very worried all the time and high strung and likes to yell –although my mom doesn’t like to yell,” Poehler told the Television Critics Association Wednesday. “And Duncan, just take anything you are doing, and then cut the enthusiasm and effort in half, and you’ve got kind of a 15-year-old boy.”
Amy Poehler has a plan to bond with her sons: Make a TV show they can watch together.
The actress and writer’s new Fox animated series, “Duncanville,” is about a gangly, awkward teenage boy and his family, and Poehler is voicing both the mom, Annie, and Duncan. And considering she has two young sons (with ex-husband Will Arnett), she had a lot of help figuring out how to make the series, due to premiere in February.
“I do the voice of a mom and son. So the mom is really, frankly, just based on my own mom, a Boston mom who is very worried all the time and high strung and likes to yell –although my mom doesn’t like to yell,” Poehler told the Television Critics Association Wednesday. “And Duncan, just take anything you are doing, and then cut the enthusiasm and effort in half, and you’ve got kind of a 15-year-old boy.”
Her sons have been “small focus group of two” for the series, and their appearances affected character design for scruffy teen Duncan.
“I’ve learned from being around young boys that bed head is a really big deal.”