Amy: “I met my guy on a dating app – he had no idea I was famous!”
Comedian Amy Schumer tells Closer why she loved working with Goldie Hawn in her latest film, Snatched, and how she fell for a furniture designer
Her brutally honest style of H comedy has won her legions of fans – and while she’s been conquering Hollywood, Amy Schumer has also found love with furniture designer Ben Hanisch.
The pair went public with their romance in January 2016 after meeting online the previous year, and Amy says he’s unlike any man she’s ever dated before.
“I’m very impulsive and an idiot so I usually move in with somebody after a week,” laughs Amy, whose close friends include actress Jennifer Lawrence. “I’m like: ‘This is forever, let’s get tattoos!’ And then we’ll break up.
“But with Ben, this is actually happening. I met him on a dating app and he is just nice. He’s not a performer; he leaves that to me.”
STAYING HUMBLE
And Amy, 35 – who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in hit comedy Trainwreck, a film she also wrote – says Ben, 30, didn’t even know who she was when they first met.
She reveals: “He didn’t know I was famous when we met. His friends had heard of me but he had never seen anything I’d done until we were dating. Then I was like: ‘Will you watch a couple of things?’ He was going to the Golden Globes with me and I was like: ‘You should see Trainwreck; you should see what I am nominated for.’”
But New York-based Amy quickly adds
that she’s doesn’t have a display cabinet for all her awards. She says: “They’re in my laundry room because nobody wants to walk in and see all of your trophies. You have got to keep yourself humble.”
Amy has just finished a new comedy called Snatched (out next month) in which she teamed up with her lifelong idol Goldie Hawn, 71. The pair play a mother and daughter kidnapped while on vacation in Hawaii.
She giggles: “Two years ago, I ran into her on a plane and, at the end of the flight, I ran over and said: ‘I love you. I’m a comedian and an actor and I really want to make this movie with you.’ She was like: ‘OK, honey.’
“Goldie is so sweet. She will talk to anyone for two hours! I think she thought I was crazy but then we kept bumping into each other at events. I’d annoy her, saying: ‘About this movie...’ And she’d say: ‘But I haven’t done a movie in 14 years.’ I said: ‘This is the movie to do!’ We had the best time.”
CRUEL COMMENTS
But Amy, who shot to fame in 2011 as a stand-up comedian before landing her own Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer, in 2013, admitted she wasn’t able to enjoy filming in the exotic location.
“I was actually really sick there,” she reveals. “I got bronchitis and I was exhausted. I was in the hospital and we had to stop shooting for a week.
“My sister Kim and I were laughing so hard because they kept coming in and taking all of this blood and saying, ‘The blood hemolyzed.’ I don’t know what that means, but they kept having to take more. I was just rock bottom. I couldn’t speak and I coughed so
hard that I fractured my own ribs!”
She adds: “I was sick the whole time and I am from the US, so I like to sit and not move! Everyone hikes there, like every day. They are so healthy. Dogs hike – you even see cats on a hike. I went on a hike and on my left was a baby in a diaper blowing past me! They hike under any circumstances.
“I remember it was really Instyle
muddy and I asked someone: ‘Hey, is it going to be this muddy at the top?’ And they said: ‘Yes, and also there are bees up there.’ Nothing slows them down.”
And Amy, who hit the headlines this week when a swimwear designer accused her of looking “like a pig” modelling a swimsuit on the cover of Instyle magazine, has admitted battling cruel comments about her weight for a long time.
Amy is a UK size 12 and insists she refuses to look like a “malnourished bird,” but also adds she doesn’t want to be a feminist figurehead.
“I don’t like being told that I have a responsibility,” she says. “I want it to be my idea. People are like, ‘Are you a feminist or not?’ I’m like, ‘Relax! I’ve got this.’ I think I have built up a little good will with the female community. I love women and I’ve got you, relax!”