Who gave you your last great hug?
Amy: Sorry to name-drop, but best hugger of all time: Oprah. You should have gone first, Michael. I’m telling you: a life-changing hug.
Michael: Maybe you could broker some kind of hug between me and Oprah at some point?
Amy: Yeah, your hug—no offense, nothing compared to Oprah. When we were in the writers room for Life and Beth I had just seen Oprah, and we all got up from the writers table and we passed the hug around. You’ve never been hugged before Oprah.
Michael: I have a little six-month-old baby, and when the baby is hugging you, it’s just…it’s the most therapeutic feeling in the world.
Amy: We’re not hugging Gene, we decided.
Who’s your best childhood friend who still speaks to you?
Amy: Jen, Jess, Caroline, and Andrea, and they are all coming to the Oscars.
Michael: Most of the friends that I grew up with are still a complete active circle of friends. All of them, basically.
What’s something unique you would want to happen at your funeral?
Amy: Oh, just key party. Keys in a bowl.
Michael: I want people to, like, perform crying. Do a moment where they say, “Let’s all do our best to cry right now, for the next 30 seconds, just see what that energy is like.”
And finally, what do you wish was different about our culture’s approach to death?
Michael: I don’t think it’s something that’s really within anyone’s control; it’s sort of a natural function of humanity. It’s hard to process loss. There’s just a million ways people go through that day to day, and it’s so unwieldy. It’s just a very personal thing.
Amy: I learned a lot about grief and loss in making this. There have been some really interesting articles this year about it—how little we plan for it. It feels like something we should invest more time into. I think it’s important to process things so they don’t manifest physically. When a comedian dies that we’re friends with, it really is like a celebration. The funeral is really funny and everybody kind of trashes each other and then we all hang out and tell stories about that person. I think that’s really nice.
Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter.
Amy Schumer and Michael Cera Talk Life and Beth, Hugs From Oprah, Wine, and Death
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