GLAMOUR: The movie is framed as a liberation tale. There are unreal expectations put on moms, and your character rejects them. What are the movie’s politics, as you see them?
MK: I think it’s wish fulfillment. There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don’t because it’s illegal. This movie has no such thing as illegal. My character had two kids really young, married her high school sweetheart, works hard, and is thirtysomething now; her husband’s a slacker who never really got out of his twenties. She catches him cheating and just goes, “F--k it.”
GLAMOUR: I’ve seen footage of some over-the-top sex jokes—about handling penis foreskin during foreplay, punching other women “in the tits,” and shoving flaccid penises “inside” during sex. It shouldn’t feel shocking to see women delivering lines like that in 2016—
MK: Was it shocking?
GLAMOUR: Sort of. In a good way: It’s something we haven’t seen onscreen enough. But as a guy, I imagine it’s a heightened version of conversations that women have all the time.
MK: It’s exactly that. The movie was written by the same writers as The Hangover, as an homage to their wives. And as heightened as the dialogue is—everybody speaks fast—those scenes aren’t heightened. They’re 100 percent from somebody’s experience.
GLAMOUR: What did those male writers get right about women?
MK: The desire to be perfect. Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona—to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.
GLAMOUR: Along those lines of looking perfect: The photo of you that’s on the back cover of this magazine is very clean-faced—
MK: We had, like, no makeup.
GLAMOUR: How did it feel to be photographed that way?
MK: Fine! I don’t wear makeup. I don’t wash my hair every day. It’s not something that I associate with myself. I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it’s beautiful. I’m just not that person. So to go to a shoot and have my makeup artist put on face cream and send me off to do a photo, I was like, “Well, this makes life easy.” And you’re still protected. Nobody’s there to make you look bad. Do you watch Game of Thrones?
GLAMOUR: Yes.
MK: Well, it’s not like I’m being scrutinized and made to walk down the street naked while sh-t’s being thrown at me!
GLAMOUR: [Laughs.] How do you feel about image manipulation?
MK: I hate it. There was a company that I did a photo shoot for once that manipulated the photo so much, I was like, “That’s not even me.” Like, what’s the point? You wanted my name, and then you wanted the version of me that I’m not. I absolutely hate it. Now, do I sometimes want them to depuff my eyes? Help me out with a little bit of lighting. But do I want them to stretch my legs, thin out my waist, curve my hips, elongate my neck, blah, blah, blah? No.
