Showing 31 - 38 of 38 articles tagged "Maya Erskine"

• Posted Saturday 3/09/19 at 5:07AM EST

  PEN15 is telling an Asian-American story rarely shown on screen

  Co-creator and co-star Maya Erskine has a lot in common with pop-culture stars like Chrissy Teigen and Olivia Munn --...

• Posted Friday 3/01/19 at 11:32PM EST

  PEN15 is also highlighting childhood racism, in addition to tackling the awkwardness of adolescence

  Maya Erskine brings the discrimination she's experienced as somebody who is half-Japanese and half-white to her 13-year-old character on the...

• Posted Thursday 2/28/19 at 3:23AM EST

  How Maya Erskine's mom ended up playing herself on PEN15

  Matsuko Erskine, Maya's Japan-born mother, says she has always been fully supportive of her daughter's Hulu show.

• Posted Saturday 2/23/19 at 2:36AM EST

  How the 31-year-old stars of PEN15 transformed into 13-year-old girls

  "The deception required a fairly convincing physical transformation, without the aid of special effects or soaking in a vat of...

• Posted Monday 2/11/19 at 9:32PM EST

  PEN15 plans to stay in 7th grade should it be renewed for Season 2

  "Before we even pitched the show, we had set up arcs for the characters because as of now the goal...

• Posted Saturday 2/09/19 at 12:41AM EST

  PEN15 proves that the frank, no-holds-barred Big Mouth approach to puberty can work without animation

  Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, both 31, play seventh-graders on their Hulu comedy opposite actual middle school-age kids.

• Posted Friday 1/18/19 at 2:14PM EST

  Watch two women play 13-year-old girls in the trailer for Hulu's Pen15

  Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves in the year 2000 in The Lonely Island-produced comedy with...

• Posted Thursday 4/19/18 at 1:54PM EDT

  Hulu's PEN15 will have two 30-somethings play 13-year-old versions of themselves

  Hulu has given a straight-to-series order for The Lonely Island-produced PEN15 -- as in "penis" -- starring adults Maya Erskine...