Judd Apatow: 'The King of Staten Island'

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Writer/Director Judd Apatow has focused his career on making comedy – and drama – people who, when forced to make a choice between adulthood and remaining a kid, put it off. And the emotional wreckage that indecision leaves. For Pete Davidson's turn and first starring role, Apatow exposes Pete Davidson to indecision. He'll discuss that perspective taking him from '40-Year-Old Virgin' to 'The King of Staten Island' on The Treatment.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.0	Welcome to the home edition of the treatment.
0:16.1	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:17.4	You may think King of Staten Island is a new documentary about the Houtang Clan.
0:21.1	That's not true, although the Riz has been in one of the movies by my guest, Judd Apatow,
0:25.9	who's directing his sixth movie to date since 2015.
0:30.0	The newest one again is the King of Staten Island.
0:31.7	My guest is this director and co-writer Judd Abattel.
0:34.7	Judd, good to have you back.
0:35.5	How are you?
0:36.2	It's great to be back. I'm hanging in there.
0:39.6	I have no idea what that's like. But let's move on to talking about the movie.
0:44.7	And one of the things I said to you, I think maybe one of the last times I saw you, which really applies to this movie, is that you tend to make films as a writer about guys who are stuck between being a
0:56.3	boy or basically stepping into manhood and that's caught in the precipice and this is really a
1:01.1	movie about somebody at an age where he has to make that kind of decision isn't it?
1:05.9	Absolutely.
1:06.9	You know, it's about, you know, a young man who's in his mid-20s.
1:11.8	His father was a firefighter who died in a hotel fire, and his mom is obsessed over taking care of him.
1:20.3	He's clearly occasionally suicidal and depressed and on medication.
1:25.7	His sister went the other way.
1:27.2	She's a hyper-achiever who gets great grades.
1:29.8	And when she leaves to go to college, his mom decides maybe it's time she could start
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