It’s a joint venture: Baby!
ZOE Kazan and Paul Dano, who live in Brooklyn and avoid publicity, have secretly collaborated on their most exciting achievement yet — a baby girl.
Sources say Kazan gave birth at the end of August to
Alma Bay. The movie-star couple managed to stay so under the radar, there were no reports she was pregnant, although there were whispers when they both appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in May for their drama “Wildlife.” The two first worked together in 2007 on the off-Broadway play “Things We Want.”
Now the pair is getting raves as the co-writers of “Wildlife,” based on a Rich
ard Ford book, and Dano’s directorial debut starring
Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. Kazan is in the Coen brothers’ movie “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” now on the festival circuit.
While Kazan, 35, is bonding with baby Alma, Dano, 34, will be on Broadway with Ethan Hawke in a production of Sam Shepard’s “True West.” Previews start in December.
“Honestly, this fall is already an embarrassment of riches for Paul and me, and it hasn’t even really started yet,” Kazan tweeted Aug. 31, with no mention of the baby.
A publicist at Relevant Public Relations, the firm repping both Kazan and Dano, told me, “We don’t have a comment on the story at this time.”