TORONTO — Canadian actress and writer Nia Vardalos, best known for the hit romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, doesn’t like some of the images being used to promote video games, movies and TV shows.
Referring to posters for the new season of American Horror Story that show a snake inside the mouths of three women, Vardalos said: “It’s an image that I don’t think we have to see and it’s right out there in public.”
Ditto the poster for the latest edition of the Grand Theft Auto video game.
“I don’t want to see it, even when I’m driving down the street,” said Vardalos, during an appearance on Global Toronto’s The Morning Show.
The star is also not impressed with how the made-in-Toronto horror film Mama was advertised.
“Can we make a more palatable poster?,” she wondered, referring to the image of a child clutching the skeletal arm of a woman.
Vardalos admitted she is fiercely protective of Ilaria, the daughter she adopted in 2008 with her husband, actor Ian Gomez.
“I’m always monitoring my daughter,” she explained. “You have to give kids a structure to push out of and then always just be there in your helicopter.
“You have to have no expression when they tell you that they’re in what would amount to a blood feud with a friend at school.”
Vardalos shares her personal journey to adopt Ilaria in the book Instant Mom — a book that has received one very important stamp of approval.
Vardalos said she cherishes the special moments she has with her eight-year-old daughter.
“She’ll lay with her face close to mine and say something so poetically beautiful,” she said, “and then go, ‘Mom, you’re growing a beard.'”
Up next for the 51-year-old Winnipeg native is the release of Helicopter Mom, a comedy in which she plays the mother of a teenage boy (played by 22-year-old Jason Dolley) who is so convinced he’s gay that she pushes him out of the closet.
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