Is Big Mouth Based On Nick Krolls Life How Much Is Real

Is Big Mouth Based On Nick Kroll’s Life? How Much Is Real

Is Big Mouth actually based on the life of Nick Kroll? As it turns out, the original comedic premise evolved into a universally-relatable story.

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Is Big Mouth Based On Nick Krolls Life How Much Is Real

Is Big Mouth actually based on the life of Nick Kroll? The American actor co-created the series and voices a character called Nick who is loosely based on himself – but as the hormone monsters and other surreal elements suggest, Big Mouth isn’t a straightforward autobiography. As it turns out, Big Mouth is a tale of two stories – one about Kroll’s upbringing, and one about the modern puberty experience.

Set in New York, Big Mouth follows two young teens called Nick Birch (Kroll) and Andrew Glouberman (John Mulaney). As the boys try to understand their changing bodies, their classmates are also going through their own growing pains. The Netflix comedy doesn’t shy away from edgy and gross-out humor, as the writers embrace the scary nature of puberty through supporting characters such as Maury the Hormone Monster (Kroll), Connie the Hormone Monstress (Maya Rudolph), and Tito the Anxiety Mosquito (Maria Bamford), to name a few. Big Mouth also includes a diverse supporting cast of teenage characters, including Jessi Glaser (Jessi Klein), Missy Foreman-Greenwald (Jenny Slate, Ayo Edebiri), Jay Bilzerian (Jason Mantzoukas), and Matthew MacDell (Andrew Rannells).

Big Mouth was inspired by the experiences of Kroll and his childhood best friend, Andrew Goldberg. The duo co-created the series with Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, and based the comedy on embarrassing real life-tales. According to Kroll (via NowThis Entertainment), he was a “late bloomer” and actually did get “pantsed” in his front of his childhood crush, a life moment that is recreated in Big Mouth. Kroll also revealed that a female friend experienced her first period during a trip to the Statue of Liberty, just like Jessi in the episode “Everyone Bleeds.” As for Goldberg, who first experienced puberty before Kroll, he once ejaculated while slow dancing with a girl, which is depicted in the series premiere, “Ejaculation.” In Big Mouth, Mulaney voices Andrew because Goldberg (below left) isn’t an actor, and also because Mulaney is Kroll’s long-time comedic collaborator.

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A December 2020 report (via The New York Times) reveals that Kroll’s adult battle with eczema created “a wormhole back into adolescence.” The actor struggled with the skin condition into his forties, resulting in a state of helplessness that inspired the creative concepts for the hormone monsters in Big Mouth. Kroll has revealed that the first two seasons are fundamentally about his childhood experiences with Goldberg, and how their most awkward recollections could translate to universally-relatable situations through side characters in the Netflix series:

“For every eczema-riddled short guy, there was an acne-smothered wet-dreaming giant, or an asexual unwieldy-breasted loner, or a wispily-mustached smelly jock. Every adult on earth has a puberty story. The trick was to construct a room where those stories could be told.”

Kroll has explained that Big Mouth season 3 onward focuses less on his own background and more about what it’s like to be a modern kid. The edgy comedy aligns with the times, and so there’s a naturalistic feel to the various storylines, even if older viewers may be shocked by the “provocative discussions” that Kroll and company hope will resonate with viewers. Thematically, the Big Mouth says that the show is applicable not just to puberty, but to struggles that people experience throughout their lives: “Kids who are around 12, 13, 14 years old are a great proxy for what all of us are trying to parse through this – that everybody’s just trying to figure it out.”

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