Kathryn Hahn specialises in playing women caught between child-raising and hell-raising. In Bad Moms her laissez-faire mother drank tequila from the bottle, snogged her female friends and rampaged around a supermarket on a stolen mobility scooter. Her empty-nester in Mrs Fletcher turned to pornography, spanking and seducing strangers. In Afternoon Delight she took in a sex worker as a lodger and ended up accompanying her on a job.
“You don’t stop living once you become a mother,” Hahn says, although you can see why she has told her children not to google her. “My son doesn’t need to know,” she says with a laugh. “Uh-uh.” Even when the Ohio-raised actress doesn’t play mothers there’s often a tension between responsibility and hedonism: the woman trying to