Although Aubrey Plaza‘s latest series is about a talking cat in Queens, Kevin is very much inspired by her own life.
The Golden Globe nominee, who voices Kevin’s person Dana, recently discussed the “really weird” experience pitching the animated Prime Video series with co-creators Dan Murphy and Joe Wengert, Plaza’s ex-boyfriend with whom she wrote the show inspired by their rescue cat.
“Yes, Joe and I, a long, long time ago, we lived in Queens, which is where the show is set,” she noted on The View. “We actually had two cats, Kevin and Howard, and we adopted them from like a mob family.”
Plaza recalled, “Pitching the show was a really full-circle, crazy moment. Because I was 19 when I met Joe. It kind of felt cathartic in a way, kind of like couple’s therapy, but 20 years later, in front of Amazon, Netflix and
...Keep reading this article on DEADLINE.
