I couldn’t think of why anyone else wouldn’t want to. Judd: For me, as a kid, I always wanted to work in movies and television. Judd, did you have any compunctions about letting your kids into show business? I think the other 22 hours is what makes it so hard to listen to the 45 minutes. So if I’m sitting with Pete Holmes or Amy Schumer, they just have to spend that 45 minutes with me, not the next 22 hours. Other people don’t have to spend the entire day with me. And I’m always shocked by how irritating I am. So I always have to try to figure out how to sneak any information in - but as a father, you’re always irritating. We go to war when we talk about story structure and script, because there’s nothing anyone wants less in the world than to be taught something by their father. And he’s really helpful to me, even though sometimes it causes fights. And he’s probably taught me most things I know. Maude: My dad gives me a lot of advice that I pretend that I don’t listen to, but I actually listened to most of his advice about writing. Your dad has given countless young actors advice on becoming screenwriters how does that work for you? Maude, you’re working on a movie script right now. It took me a while to figure out what to do to get positive chemicals in my body. I just circle the neighborhood, and that seems to level me out. Judd: I decided to take a two-hour walk every morning around the house. Maude: Oh, my gosh, the first three weeks of lockdown you were losing it. Judd: I’m handling it worse? How so? How would you describe how I’m handling it? Maude: You’re definitely handling it worse! (If not for the pandemic, Judd would’ve been off producing a Nick Stoller-directed Billy Eichner romantic comedy, while Maude was supposed to be shooting Season Two of Euphoria - “We had all our table reads and camera tests and were ready to go right before quarantine started,” she says.) After extensive familial negotiations, they opted to speak from separate rooms, in part, Maude half-jokes, “because my nightmare is having to compliment my dad to his face.” home, where they were sheltering in place. For their first-ever joint interview, Judd and Maude talked to Rolling Stone via Zoom from their L.A. Originally set for a theatrical run, the film ended up going straight to a June 12th home release after the pandemic shut movie theaters. When her parents allowed her to start auditioning, she began winning role after role outside the Apatow-sphere, including her part as Lexi, the least messed-up teen on HBO’s Euphoria, memorably introduced as a supplier of drug-free urine to Zendaya’s Rue.Īmong other talents, Maude has inherited her mom’s entertaining ability to vibrate with palpable anxiety onscreen, a skill she puts to use as the put-upon, overachieving younger sister of Pete Davidson’s aimless man-child character in her dad’s excellent new movie, The King of Staten Island (based loosely on Davidson’s own life). (“What I think was so great about Maude is she really could get in the head of what a teenage meltdown looks like, do it on film, kick ass - and then go home and have a real one, two hours later,” says her dad.) After that, she had a fairly normal high school experience, if you don’t count burgeoning social media stardom thanks to her precociously witty feed. Maude more than earned her screen time at age 14, on 2012’s This Is 40, throwing hilariously authentic adolescent tantrums, fighting convincingly with her real-life younger sister, Iris, and nailing her first tearful monologue. “I’m sick and tired,” she told her dad at age eight, “of just being in the DVD extras!” By the time she disappeared from the last of those films, she was fed up. As a grade-schooler, she shot small roles for Kicking and Screaming, Talladega Nights, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, only to see herself sliced out of all three. Maude Apatow, the eldest daughter of writer-director-producer Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann, got an early taste of the indignities of showbiz.
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