Judd Apatow: Working with Lena Dunham on Girls informed film with Pete Davidson

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Judd Apatow has said working with Lena Dunham on Girls helped him collaborate with Pete Davidson on a new film about his issues following the loss of his father.

The Knocked Up film-maker, who wrote The King Of Staten Island with Davidson and also served as director, said he felt protective of the 26-year-old comedian as they wrote the screenplay that echoed his own experiences with grief and mental health.

The film tells the story of an aspiring tattoo artist who is struggling to move on with his life after the death when he was a child of his firefighter father.

Davidson was just seven when his own firefighter father died in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Apatow told the PA news agency: “I have worked with other people who are