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That’s our Baby

When it comes to work-life balance, Sophie Henderson and Curtis Vowell have some different ideas. The married actor-turned-screenwriter and actor-turned-director tapped their antenatal anxieties for their second movie together. The result is Baby Done, a film with Rose Matafeo in the lead role of Zoe, a chainsaw-wielding champion tree-climbing arborist who fights being grounded when she gets pregnant and can’t cope with her life supposedly being over.

“I wrote it for my mum friends,” says Henderson, now a mother of two. “I was so scared to turn into a mum

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