Judd Apatow — the prolific filmmaker and producer responsible for the R-rated comedy boom, the latest entry being the dramedy The King of Staten Island — could never comprehend the benefits his comedic compatriot and Saturday Night Live maestro Lorne Michaels felt from taking a stroll an hour or more each day.
That all changed with the COVID-pandemic. Apatow, 53, started walking two hours every morning. “It has kept me as close to sane as I get.
I’ve always heard that Lorne would take a walk for an hour, hour-and-a-half, every day at lunch. And I would think, ‘Oh my gosh, that sounds so boring, taking a walk, what is that?’ But I got so much done and had so many ideas,” says the prolific director, writer and producer in a recent interview.
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