general | March 22, 2026

10 Questions for Maya Rudolph

Erik Tanner for TIME

Maya Rudolph

Ava, your character on Up All Night, is a woman who is kind of mystified by kids. Do you know people like that?

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves. I think that people who don't like kids are awful people. Ava's just clueless about them, which I find funnier.

What do you think is the biggest divide between women who have children and women who don't?

Before I had my daughter, my job at Saturday Night Live was my everything. It was my husband, it was my children,...

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