“The King of Staten Island,” director Judd Apatow tells The Post that total immersion was the only way to capture the 26-year-old comic’s life.Here the Syosset, LI-born director, 52, talks about his summer spent in the borough, hanging out with pal Davidson and his Staten Island neighbors.You know, it’s a place that a lot of people haven’t been to, unless you live there.
It doesn’t really have an attraction to draw you. There isn’t a Six Flags Staten Island. There’s one character played by Bel Powley, Pete’s love interest, who always says, “Why can’t it be like Brooklyn?
We are cool. We need to show the world.”The movie is about what Pete’s life might have become if he didn’t find comedy. We talked a lot about a version of Pete that didn’t.
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