Knocked Up is a family affair. Director Judd Apatow cast his real life wife, Leslie Mann, as half of the film's married couple, and his own kids as their children. Mrs. Apatow wasn't so sure their kids should become child stars, but she relented.
Leslie Mann on Knocked Up
"I didn't want to put them in the movie, but Judd, he thought that it was a good idea," said Mann. "Time passed by, and I was saying, 'No, no, no,' and then I'm like, 'I don't know, maybe.' And then it was like a week before and he said, 'You have to tell me now.' He would ask me when I was really busy, so I couldn't really focus on it and then it ended up just happening. But it's okay."
The film is very R-rated but even in the PG moments, the kids fit in with the improvisational comedians. "What did we say to Maude? She was just so good. I'm trying to think of what we said to her. We just told her she would need to talk about how babies were born. You know, that's as much as we told her, and then she improvised that. That was all her. She's very comfortable, improvising. We had three cameras on her, people standing all around her, and she was so comfortable and really funny and good. So it worked out. So far."
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Mann gets to express rage on behalf of all good looking mommies who get shut out of young clubs. Railing on a bouncer, Mann stands up for all MILFs. "We just thought it would be fun for my character to do, and no, I didn't feel uncomfortable at taking it all the way. It's a dream that people have when they're in that kind of situation where there's some dumb bouncer guy saying you're not good enough. It's a dream to tell that guy to f*ck off, and scream at him and call him stupid. Isn't it? Nobody? You feel like that sometimes but you don't do that in polite society. That was a fun thing to do in the movie. It's the only time you can do it, I guess."
Even with these family and girl power moments, sometimes the testosterone of the movie became too much. "One day, at the end of shooting the movie, I was stuck in the hospital room, in the waiting room area, with all of the boys during the birth scene, and I was so disgusted. All they talk about is like porn sites. It's real, the way they talk in the movie. That's how they talk. And I had to sit there all day with them. I just had to sit there and listen to them talk the dirty, DIRTY stuff like you just don't hear, that I'd never heard about. I thought that I had been around all these guys. For some reason, they felt very loose and comfortable with me, or they forgot that I was there and they just talked like they normally talked. And it was really disgusting. I couldn't wait to get out of there. Dirty, dirty boys. They really are."
Knocked Up is out in theaters now.
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