Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert Draw on Past Relationship and Shared Cat for Animated Series 'Kevin'
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Summary
Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert discuss their new adult animated series 'Kevin' for Prime Video, which draws inspiration from their past romantic relationship and the cat they once owned together. The show explores the inner life of Kevin the cat (voiced by Jason Schwartzman). Plaza and Wengert each separately considered creating a cat-centric animated series before the pandemic, and later teamed up, using their shared history as creative material for the show.
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· 3 pulledIn a quite unusual scenario, the show had the two reconvening to mine their past romantic relationship a couple of decades after it ended — using that history as the backdrop to explore the inner life of Kevin, the cat (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) that they once owned together.
Plaza and Wengert came to team up on Kevin after each separately mulled their own cat-centric animated series, pre-pandemic.
Their relationship didn't come into the s
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