Amy Schumer talks 'Trainwreck' shooting, her private life in 'Vanity Fair'
Amy Schumer has figured out the formula for being famous and funny.
On May's cover of Vanity Fair, the multi-talented actress/writer/comedian posed for Annie Leibovitz while sizzling in a strapless red body suit. She was honest as she is in her comedy—Last (Expletive) Day, anyone? And candidly spoke about her friends, her personal life and that tragic Trainwreck shooting.
On wishing she never wrote Trainwreck:
Nearly nine months ago, a man walked into a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana that was playing Trainwreck and opened firing killing two and wounding nine others before turning the gun on himself.
Schumer was sitting in a hotel room in Los Angeles when she saw that she'd missed about "a million" calls from her publicist.
"I was laughing before I called her back, because I thought it was going to be like a sex tape (had surfaced) or something. So, I was kind of laughing," Schumer said. "And then she told me there had been this shooting." "It really … I don’t know. It’s like when TheDark Knight shooting happened, and in Paris. The idea of people trying to go out and have a good time—you know, like looking forward to it?—I don’t know why that makes me the saddest." At this point, the reporter noted that Schumer was crying.
"So my publicist told me. And then I put on the news. I was by myself in a hotel, and I was just like, I wish I never wrote that movie."
Later Schumer partnered with her second cousin once removed, New York U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, after he called her. "I was like, ‘Let’s go. Let’s do it,’” she said.
Why her high school friends probably aren't singing No New Friends:
Being friends with Jennifer Lawrence certainly has its perks. Besides being a lover of the finer things in life—wine, jokes, and pizza—she also might be able to get you into the premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2.
“I was like, ‘I have to bring all my friends from high school,’" Schumer said. "They (Lawrence’s people) were like, ‘Are you serious?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, if I go and don’t bring them, it’ll be an issue.’”
That's a good girl friend. Speaking of girlfriends...
She might want to keep things with her boyfriend more on the down-low:
After the Vanity Fair reporter told the Inside Amy Schumer star that some sites have speculated that she and her boyfriend, Ben Hanisch, were contemplating parenthood (after posting a photo with a prosthetic belly), Schumer said that she might need to keep things closer to the vest. "I feel like right now I’m going to crack down and keep myself more private for that reason," she said. "Which feels, you know, kind of counter-intuitive as a comic. But I don’t know—it seems necessary.”
On her plate being a little too full—hold the plus-size insinuations, ladies' magazines, we're talking about her work:
The funny lady said that while she loves what she's doing, she'd welcome a little more down time. "I’m not Joan Rivers, where I’m like, ‘A full calendar is happiness,’" she said. "I would love to do nothing, like waking up and not knowing what you’re going to do that day.”
Schumer said the other day she was so overwhelmed at work that she left early to watch Labyrinth starring David Bowie on her sister Kim Caramele's couch.
"I mean, the movie’s weird, but it just felt so good to just lay there, while it was still light out, and watch a movie."
We hear you, girl. *Cues up Netflix.*