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Together onscreen for the first time, funny gals Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer drew on their own family memories for the new movie comedy Snatched.

“That’s a very fraught, charged relationship,” says actress Goldie Hawn of the complex connection that mothers have with their daughters. Yet it can also be—as in the case of the mother-daughter duo played by Hawn and Amy Schumer on the big screen this month—a relationship full of laughs.

Hawn and Schumer’s new film, Snatched (in theaters May 12), is a vacation-gone-wrong caper set in the jungles of South America. Hawn, 71—in her first feature film since The

Banger Sisters (2002)—plays an overly cautious mother, Linda, who longs to spend more time with her daughter. Schumer, 35—who made the move from TV to the big screen when she wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed comedy Trainwreck (2015)—plays her optimistic daughter, Emily.

When Emily is dumped by her boyfriend and doesn’t want to lose her nonrefundable trip to Ecuador, she convinces Linda to join her, setting the hilarity in motion. In real life, getting Hawn to do the movie also took some convincing. Schumer first approached her about the project two years ago, after seeing her on an airplane. “She was a couple rows ahead of me; I just kinda creepily stared at her the whole flight,” jokes Schumer.

Once they landed in Los Angeles, she approached Hawn, whose long movie résumé includes Shampoo, Private Benjamin, Overboard, The First Wives Club and Seems Like Old Times. “Hiiiii . . . I’m a comedian, I’m gonna do this movie and I really want you to play my mom,” said Schumer. It took meeting Hawn a second time in London, and Hawn’s daughter, actress Kate Hudson, nudging her to read the script. The next time Hawn and Schumer saw each other was on the Snatched set.

Collaborating was “beyond my wildest dreams because I’ve loved her for so long,” says Schumer.

“She’s really, really smart,” adds Hawn of her co-star, the creator and star of the Peabody Award–winning Comedy Central