WILL ARNETT AND WILL FORTE LEARN PARENTING SKILLS

As the Solomon Brothers Will Arnett and Will Forte have to take a crash course in parenting to ready themselves for their bundle of joy.

Happiness takes a back seat to the skills they must acquire using a baby doll for practice. Will Forte is glad he wasn’t working with a real baby on the set.

“I’ll tell ya, even taking care of a doll is hard on a movie set. It’s weird because you start to treat this little baby doll as a living being and oh my God when it’s the real thing it’s gonna be tough. In the movie my character tries to prepare him for any eventualities so I end up stuffing the diaper with lots of really random things such as five dollars worth of quarters, chicken nuggets, like some popcorn and a dead bird. Just combos that you might not expect to see how he would deal with that. You’ve got to be prepared.”

Forte and Arnett don’t have children in real life but they’ve discovered the essential qualities that make up being a good parent through taking care of a doll baby in the film.

“I think to be a good parent. I actually just watched Kramer vs. Kramer over the weekend and that taught me that lesson too. Thirty years after it was made. It was great. As a good parent you have to let your child learn. You got to give ‘em room. Give them the perfect amount of space but also you need to control a little bit. Let ‘em do his own thing but your hands are on his shoulders or her shoulders the entire time.”

The Brothers Solomon is currently playing in theaters.