Amy Schumer Details ‘Supportive’ Collab With Husband Chris Fischer

Amy Schumer had a really particular help system behind the scenes on her Hulu sequence Life & Beth.

In an unique interview with Us Weekly, the comic, 42, described the position of her “very humorous” husband, Chris Fischer, who works on the present as a writing guide.

“It’s fixed collaboration between us,” Schumer mentioned at Selection’s Energy of Ladies occasion Thursday, Might 2, at New York Metropolis’s Smithsonian Design Museum. “He’s so supportive, and I might by no means say something he’s not comfy with.”

Fischer’s position is so necessary to Life & Beth’s success as a result of the subject material hits very near residence.

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Within the second season of the sequence — which premiered in February — Schumer’s character, Beth, means that her husband, John (performed by Michael Cera), ought to see a health care provider after noticing sure behaviors following their wedding ceremony. Ultimately, John is recognized with autism spectrum dysfunction (ASD).

It’s a journey that intently mirrored the one shared by Schumer and Fischer in actual life, when Fischer was recognized with ASD shortly after the couple’s 2018 wedding ceremony.

“I knew from the start that my husband’s mind was a bit completely different than mine,” Schumer mentioned in her 2019 Netflix particular Rising. “As soon as he was recognized, it dawned on me how humorous it was, as a result of the entire traits that make it clear that he’s on the spectrum are the entire causes that I fell head over heels in love with him.”

Whereas Life & Beth is loosely based mostly on Schumer’s precise life and experiences, she by no means desires to get too into the nitty gritty.

“I actually attempt to decide and select,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter in February. “With my very own private life, there are some issues, just like the start scene, that’s just about [how it happened]. There are some parts which might be clearly exaggerated, however a few of it’s direct from my life and conversations that I’ve had, and different stuff is a collaboration from the writers and the actors. It truly is an amalgamation of all people’s lives.”

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When it got here to writing concerning the autism prognosis, Schumer informed THR that the writers’ room employed a scientific psychologist to verify they have been getting issues proper.

“We actually wished to be respectful and present that, once we discuss concerning the spectrum, what that phrase means,” she mentioned. “It’s a large spectrum, and that is a part of it that you simply don’t usually get to see: an excellent high-functioning particular person. And that that’s not what defines him.”

Each seasons of Life & Beth can be found to stream on Hulu.