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Claudia Lonow's new ABC family half-hour How To Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life) is an autobiographical tale, she admitted to critics during the ABC TCA presentation in Los Angeles earlier today. "I actually do live with my parents, and I have been living with them for the last fifteen years," Lonow was unironically candid. "I moved out when I was eighteen, and then I moved back. And now I'm here!...I thought a good title would be How To Live With Your Parents For The Rest Of Your Life because that is what's happening to me...My daughter's about to go to college, and I have no plans to move out. I think they should move out since I did the first time." In the pilot episode, Sarah Chalke's character gets out of a bad relationship and ends up on her mother's doorstep with her daughter in tow. Lonow said that although when she ended up on her parents' doorstep her own daughter was actually a little younger than the girl in the show, it is pretty much otherwise pulled from her life, including the line she delivers when the door opens. "They're great, untraditional parents, and they took me in like any loving mother and stepfather would," Lonow said a bit more seriously.

Rachel Eggleston, who plays Chalke's on-screen daughter Rachel had a pow-wow with Lonow's real life daughter to wrap her head around the character: "I'm playing you...So Sarah's playing Claudia, so Elizabeth is playing your grandmother," Lonow recalled. "[My daughter] said 'Yeah', and [Rachel] went 'Is your grandmother crazy like that?' And she went 'Yeah!'" Lonow said that even though the characters may seem amplified, they really have heart and goodness underneath them that will come out the more we seem the kind of co-parent with Chalke. Even when they resist. Even when they screw-up. "My stepfather will fix everything in the house. If there's a dead rat in the attic, he's happy to go up there and get it. I think for me personally, it turned out to be this weird opportunity to work out every issue I ever had with them," Lonow considered. "My whole life is kind of like a flashback, and I feel like I've come to a really great place with my parents. I really like them; they're super entertaining...but now that I see how fantastically my daughter turned out and how she benefited, in hindsight it was all worth it, even if it was never my intention at the time."

Of course, though, living at home undoubtedly (often negatively) affects one's love life, and that is something Lonow experienced that she will explore almost immediately in the first season. "I would say that being a divorced woman with a child who lives with her parents is not a selling point," she laughed. "I had a couple of guys drive me home and want to come in, and I'd go 'Okay, so here, I'm going to break this to you now...' and they kind of ran to the car. But I have a relationship now, and I just go to his place on the weekend. That keeps the romance alive." Yet, Lonow probably wouldn't trade the experience for anything because it afforded her ample material for this show, which she shared she has been working on for the past twelve years. Even when other opportunities afforded her the chance to move out, she chose not to: "When it was time for my daughter to go to grammar school, I bought a house with them. I know it's crazy. It's like there should be a show about it!"