Maude Apatow is the first to admit she didn’t excel at improv in high school.
“We were all standing onstage, and when it would be my turn I would do two exchanges and then I’d say, ‘Oh, I’m getting a call in the other room,’” she reveals with a laugh. “I would always find an excuse to leave. And then I would run offstage because I was so nervous.”
Bear in mind that by this point, Apatow had already proved her improv bona fides in comedies such as “Knocked Up,” “Funny People” and “This Is 40,” having amassed impressive credits before the age of 14, with co-stars from Paul Rudd to Seth Rogen. Those movies were all written and directed by her father, Judd Apatow, and featured Apatow and her younger sister, Iris, playing the children of their real-life mother, Leslie Mann. But Apatow insists the freeform structure...
“We were all standing onstage, and when it would be my turn I would do two exchanges and then I’d say, ‘Oh, I’m getting a call in the other room,’” she reveals with a laugh. “I would always find an excuse to leave. And then I would run offstage because I was so nervous.”
Bear in mind that by this point, Apatow had already proved her improv bona fides in comedies such as “Knocked Up,” “Funny People” and “This Is 40,” having amassed impressive credits before the age of 14, with co-stars from Paul Rudd to Seth Rogen. Those movies were all written and directed by her father, Judd Apatow, and featured Apatow and her younger sister, Iris, playing the children of their real-life mother, Leslie Mann. But Apatow insists the freeform structure...
- 5/27/2020
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
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