When actresses get pregnant, their baby bumps are often integrated into the script. Authors usually try their best to incorporate a pregnancy somehow harmoniously into the story, but that doesn’t always work out: in such cases, the set crew has to come up with something.
Laundry baskets are used to hide the baby bumps, and boxes of cornflakes or cinnamon plants are used to keep the pregnancy a secret. And more often than not, the hiding game works really well. Otherwise, would you have ever noticed in “Sex and the City” that Sarah Jessica Parker was pregnant during filming? We tracked down a few covered-up pregnancies in series.
“Wonder Woman” had already been in the can for quite some time when director Patty Jenkins decided to reshoot a scene. However, by the time of the reshoot, Gal Gardot was meanwhile five months pregnant. End of story: Green fabric was simply sewn into the superheroine outfit and could be technically adjusted in post-production.