Judd Apatow shooting 40 Year Old Virgin.
haha, his face on the screen is killing me.
Last night at Judd Apatow's Screenwriting Show at UCB, he fielded a question from a girl asking if he had any advice for actors auditioning for roles. Good thing I stealth record most interviews I attend, huh?
Judd: Acting is so hard and so scary that when you go into a room to do auditions, there's probably nothing more unnatural in the world than walking into a space you've never seen before, you don't know who you're going to be looking at, and you're trying to disappear into some scene. So there's almost no way to deliver. Well, and then if you're nervous about it, it's impossible to do it... to do it well.
So, the only advice I can give in an impossible situation like that is if you understand that EARLY that it's crazy and find... find it amusing. That like it's just funny that you set me up to die here. [audience laughter]
And I'm not like... holding tight. It's like "Ah! Gotta remember it! Gotta do it!" It's just that you enjoy... them. You enjoy the weirdness. You can call it out. And you try to make a connection and be open and just LIKE yourself. And it's... and not look at each thing as like the be-all end-all because I think if you care TOO much you just imPLODE. And you just have to think of each thing as like it's own funny, unique experience, not like "Oh if I can get this Burger King commercial my life will be better." [audience laughter]
Judd answered the girl's question with so much empathy and heart, maybe because his wife is an actor. But more likely because his agent and manager were there, sitting front row.
Sneaks
Actual, non-creeper fashion: The Band of Outsiders goes on a boat.
The boys are wearing Band of Outsiders; the lady, Boy by Band of Outsiders.
Cast of characters:
Judd Apatow's actor-wife, Leslie Mann, and their daughter Maude :)
Donald Glover, actor writer rapper, basically a Renaissance man
James Franco's prettyboy brother, firstnamewhocares Franco
cool cougar action
A BREAK to show you Donald Glover's likely nightmares.
He wrote these notes in a hotel room after finding out his show Community was being cancelled.
These confessions are so honest and vulnerable and raw, you know you've felt all of these before, except maybe the Tyrese one.
whoa, this is killing me. I'm literally dying.
I'm dyinggggg.
I'm DEAD.
AND WE'RE BACK
