“When you have kids, they're not a plan to be executed.”
Brianne Howey is entering season 3 with a mother’s perspective.
The 36-year-old “Ginny & Georgia” actress welcomed a baby girl with her husband Matt Ziering in 2023, nearly six months after the second season of her hit Netflix show came to an end.
The third season, which was confirmed in May 2023, per Deadline, was released on June 5.
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While speaking to Entertainment Tonight about the new season, Howey — who plays Georgia Miller in the show — opened up about what feels different this time around now that she’s a mother in real life.
"One thing that surprised me the most, I'm already a pretty emotional being, I didn't know my heart would get even bigger," she said of being a first-time mom.
"So to have this be Georgia's breakdown season, I was having a hard time,” she added.
In the show, Georgia is a single mother to two kids — Ginny and Austin. After years of running from danger, Georgia hopes, but struggles, to settle down and give her children a new, normal life.
“So much happens,” Howey told ET of season 3.
“They evolve so much. They learn so many hard lessons, and I already felt like my emotions were already so on the forefront,” she continued. “So, yeah it was challenging and it definitely stuck me where it hurt.”
Despite the challenge, Howey described season 3 as a “really fun journey for these characters to go on.”
Howey says her ‘heart only got bigger’ after becoming a mom
Howey’s comments to Entertainment Tonight echoed what she said in a similar interview with People.
The actress, who also appears in “The Exorcist,” “The Passage” and “Batwoman,” explained how she initially thought her Georgia character was “absolutely insane and unhinged.”
That is until she became a mom in real life.
"Prior to having a child, of course, I thought many of the Georgia-isms were absolutely insane and unhinged and over the top, and why is she taking up so much space?" she told People.
"Now that I have a child,” she added, “I am so obsessed with her that I understand why Georgia is so obsessed with Ginny, and my heart only got bigger and I just have even more respect for all the moms.”
Howey met her future husband, who works as a lawyer, at a bar through mutual friends and went public with the relationship in October 2014, per People.
The couple initially planned on having a wedding in October 2020, but were forced to put it on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to People, Howey and Ziering tied the knot the following year.
On June 18, 2023, Howey announced the arrival of the pair’s daughter in an Instagram post.
“My whole world just got a whole lot sweeter. And smaller. Welcome my little love,” she wrote in the caption.
In a February interview with DC Film Girl, Howey revealed that her birth scene in “Kinda Pregnant,” released Feb. 5, was inspired by her real-life birth story.
"Amy [Schumer] called me the night before and said, ‘Why is nobody talking about their birth stories?’ So that’s what we did," Howey recalled.
"Then the next day, we went to set and that’s my real birth story, actually,” she added.
Howey described it as a “really intimate” scene that felt “risky, but very safe at the same time.”
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“It was just me and Amy,” she said in the interview. "And I’m so grateful to her for wanting to take a swing and really go big with that scene."
