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Although Aubrey Plaza‘s latest bid is astir a talking feline successful Queens, Kevin is very overmuch inspired by her ain life.
The Golden Globe nominee, who voices Kevin’s personification Dana, precocious discussed nan “really weird” acquisition pitching nan animated Prime Video bid pinch co-creators Dan Murphy and Joe Wengert, Plaza’s ex-boyfriend pinch whom she wrote nan show inspired by their rescue cat.
“Yes, Joe and I, a long, agelong clip ago, we lived successful Queens, which is wherever nan show is set,” she noted connected The View. “We really had 2 cats, Kevin and Howard, and we adopted them from for illustration a mob family.”
Plaza recalled, “Pitching nan show was a really full-circle, crazy moment. Because I was 19 erstwhile I met Joe. It benignant of felt cathartic successful a way, benignant of for illustration couple’s therapy, but 20 years later, successful beforehand of Amazon, Netflix and everyone. And we’re not a couple. But yeah, it’s crazy because that’s really what our feline looked like, Kevin. That is our cat. So, this is for illustration an acerb travel for me. A batch going connected for me.”
Premiering Monday, April 20 connected Prime Video, Kevin stars Jason Schwartzman arsenic nan sound of nan titular cat, who moves into a Queens pet rescue aft his humans unexpectedly break up. There, he bonds pinch a section set of misfit animals, voiced by Whoopi Goldberg, John Waters, Amy Sedaris and Aparna Nancherla.
Guest stars see Quinta Brunson, Charles Melton, Joe Locke, Addison Rae, Tig Notaro, Nicole Byer, Patti LuPone, Debby Ryan, Maria Bamford, Cary Elwes and more.
