- Hi, I'm Leslie Mann.
- And I'm Judd Apatow
and welcome to the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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Are we supposed to be bantering all the time?
Because we don't really banter like this.
- No, you ignore me and I ignore you.
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What does Judd Apatow do?
- That's an existential question right there.
That's like a Buddhist saying.
That's like what is a hand- - What does Judd Apatow do?
- What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What does Judd Apatow do?
You know what this should say?
What should Judd Apatow do?
[Leslie laughs]
- What did Judd Apatow write?
[Leslie laughs]
- You don't know by now?
I'm supposed to- - They wanna know.
- They wanna know?
- Yeah.
- What did I write?
Your favorite films of all time.
The ones that you like best,
the ones that you think are better than all the others.
- Okay. What movies has Judd Apatow acted in?
- I was in the movie about the room
where I played asshole producer.
- What? Oh.
- Although in the credits it said Judd Apatow as himself.
[Leslie laughs]
- Didn't you play the elephant in the, that one-
- In The Zookeeper!
I was the elephant in The Zookeeper.
- You were very proud of that.
- It was a voiceover performance, really.
- Were you in Anchorman?
- I smelled something that stunk in Anchorman.
- Didn't you do Jay Leno or something?
- I did an impression of Jay Leno on an episode
of The Critic and on The Ben Stiller Show.
You just named all five of my acting credits.
I wasn't good in any of them.
- What movies has Judd Apatow directed?
- Okay. I can't, I can't. Just put a graphic
up right here in front of me.
It's weird to make people list their credits.
- I get that all the time.
People come up to me and say, "Oh my gosh, hey, I love you.
What were you in?"
And then I say, "Well...," and I list what I've been in,
and they're like, "No, no, huh-uh."
And then I just stand there like an idiot trying
to remind them what they know me from.
Okay. What does Judd Apatow think of Euphoria?
- I love Euphoria. It left me in a puddle.
- Yeah.
- I cried so hard. It was so good.
So amazing this season.
I enjoy Maude Apatow's work.
I feel like when I watch the show I think,
"Am I supposed to direct like that?"
Like, it looks good.
- Really good.
- And there's like angles and the camera moves.
I don't know how to do any of that.
[Leslie laughs]
So I both, I love it, and then I'm like quietly jealous
and ashamed of myself.
- Okay. What does Judd Apatow look like?
- Not like this all the time.
- No.
- And just imagine not showering, add that to this
and not dressing up and not taking care of myself
in a way that is-
- That's the version I get.
- Yeah. You're the lucky one.
What does Leslie Mann play in?
- Play in?
- Play in. Does that mean like what you,
what movies you're in?
- I think that's what that means.
- Who calls it play in?
- Some people say that. Some people say,
"What do you play in?"
- No one's ever said that.
- People say that. - What do you play in?
- I think it's like a- - America's grammar
is crazy.
What was Leslie Mann's first movie?
- Well, I think my first movie was the one
where I had the really short haircut.
Okay, I can't remember. - This is-
- But the one I do remember I played a prostitute
with Bruce Willis and-
- You double-crossed him. - And Walter Hill.
and I double crossed him and - Last Man Standing.
- He murdered me, Last Man Standing.
- Bruce Willis like beat you up because you ratted him out.
- Yeah. It's actually really good.
- Walter Hill.
- Yeah.
- Warriors come out to play. - What's the next one?
I don't know what my natural hair color is anymore.
- What is Leslie Mann's natural hair color?
- It could be anything at this point.
- We don't know what's underneath there.
We haven't looked in decades.
And you always want me to dye my hair.
- Remember when you dyed my hair?
So during lockdown Judd dyed my hair.
I said, "I need my roots done."
And she sent me stuff stupidly thinking
that I would be able to figure out how to use it.
I didn't. I asked you to like put it on the back part
that I couldn't see.
And he like put way too much and so this whole area
from here back was like bright orange.
- Not an ugly orange.
- It was terrible. It was like a big chunk of orange.
And I had to keep that for a long time until it grew out.
- What is Leslie Mann's daughter's name?
- I have two daughters.
Maude Apatow is 24 and Iris Apatow is 19.
We kind of started talking about baby names.
And my favorite movie is Harold and Maude.
- My favorite TV show is Maude.
- And I said, "What if her name is Maude?"
And we kind of laughed about it.
And then it just stuck.
And we just called her Maude for my whole pregnancy.
And then she couldn't be anyone else.
She was just Maude.
And then Iris, we didn't have a name up until the very end.
And I was taking a nap one day because I was huge
and I was hot and I was miserable and I fell asleep
and in my dream somebody whispered or somebody whispered
in my ear, "Iris."
And it woke me up and I ran downstairs
and I said, "Judd, her name's Iris."
And that was it.
- That was me whispering.
[everyone laughs] I'd been in the baby book all day
just going through the baby book. I was like, "Iris."
What is Leslie Mann like in real life?
- Delightful.
[Leslie laughs]
- She's just like this all day. Right?
- Pretty much.
- Yeah. This isn't like a character she's doing right now.
- I'm in a better mood right now than I normally am.
- Yeah. But this is real life. Isn't it?
- I think it is. - Are we in real life?
- Is Judd Apatow from Michigan?
No. Long Island.
Are Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler friends?
They are very good friends.
- Is Judd Apatow in Anchorman?
- Yes.
- I am in Anchorman.
I think I say that something smells like a diaper filled
with hot dog farts.
Are Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann still married?
- Nope.
We were holding that back.
We're just promoting the movie.
- Almost 25 years.
25 years in June.
Isn't that crazy?
- Can you believe that everyone got divorced
in all of Hollywood except us?
We're the last survivors.
[Leslie laughs]
Are Judd Apatow and Paul Rudd friends?
We are friends and I'm aging better than him.
[Leslie laughs]
You know it's true.
His deal with the devil is working out so well.
- Is Paul Rudd married to Leslie Mann?
- In another reality. In another reality.
Are Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz friends?
- Yes. I love, I love, love, love her.
- Are Leslie Mann's daughters in This is 40?
- Yes. Those are my daughters Maude and Iris.
- And we hired them
because we don't like other people's children
- And Judd tricked them into, or figured out a way
to pay them very little.
- And then keep it for myself.
- Yeah.
- I both screwed them and stole from them at the same time.
Are Leslie Mann and Katherine Heigl friends?
- Yes.
- How come no one wants to know who I'm friends with?
- Is Leslie Mann in Big Daddy?
I am Big Daddy.
I played the Hooters girl.
As the Hooters girl, I had these breast pads, something.
- Those were fake?
- I still have them.
I asked to keep them after the movie and every year I have
to like care for them by taking them out
of these little plastic bags and putting baby powder
on them to keep them from disintegrating or something.
So over the years, like every year I do that.
- Why are you like
maintaining them? - And keep them in a box.
I don't know.
- When are we gonna use them?
- Isn't that a weird- - Halloween?
Halloween this year?
- Yeah. Maybe Halloween.
But anyway, I still have them.
- It's so weird you ask, it's disgusting that you ask.
- Judd Apatow, Kanye West, Super Bowl.
- Yeah.
Judd Apatow king of Staten Island.
These aren't really questions.
You wanna know something about it?
King of Staten Island.
- They're just being lazy.
I do that.
And Google guesses right.
- But when we Google things, it's different.
We'll Google like, "Cats, if they could,
would they murder you?"
That's what our Googles are.
- Yeah.
- "Cats, do they really like you?"
"Cats, are they only your friends to get food?"
- What does it mean when they butt heads with you?
Ours are mainly cat searches.
- "Cats, if they sleep on the pillow next to you,
will you get pink eye?"
- Will they... Yeah. - This is what we search.
Everything we search is related to cats.
- Yeah.
They don't give you pink eye by the way.
- Judd Apatow Mets pitch.
That means people are looking up my bad first pitch
and I don't think that's cool. Okay?
I did the best I could.
I hadn't thrown a ball in about 15 years.
And no, I didn't meet, it didn't make it to the plate.
But it went straight towards the plate.
And so that's not that bad.
- That look on your face, the look that you have
when you're doing the pitch which is like ah.
Do that look.
No, but it's more like scared.
- Well there's 50,000 people.
- That's the look on his face every time he takes a bite
of soup. He'll-
- Because it's hot. It might be hot. I'm scared.
- ... overfill his spoon, he gets the biggest spoon
and then he goes. And he can't not do it.
He can't not make that face.
And it's so,
I can't watch him eat. - I can do it right now.
- Eat soup. - I'm going to pretend
I'm eating soup. I'm going to pretend I'm eating soup.
- He's gonna...
Does Leslie Mann have a middle name?
Yes, it's Jean and it's a family name for like, yeah.
- Someone named Jean.
- Janet and Jean, Janet and Jean.
- Leslie Mann Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
- I was in that movie, but I don't think that I had credit
in it or something.
- Well, the secrets out. You were a dog in that movie.
- I was, I was in that movie.
- What dog were you?
- Some kind of shopping dog.
- Like a little tiny dog.
- Are they all shopping dogs? I can't remember.
- Leslie Mann yelling at kid.
That's This is 40.
- Yeah.
- Ryan Lee.
- Ryan Lee. He's so funny.
I did yell at him. It was satisfying.
And-
- Because we've always wanted to do that to children.
We've always wanted to tell off a child.
- As a parent, all parent knows what we're talking about.
- Yeah.
- When some kid's mean to your kid.
- You wanna curse them out.
- And you did that for America and the world.
Leslie Mann Australian accent.
- I'm terrible with accents. Terrible.
I worked really hard at trying
to learn this Australian accent in-
- This is 40?
- No, Funny People.
- Oh geez.
- With Eric Bana. And he sat with me for hours trying
to teach me and I just couldn't get it.
- Can you still do an Australian accent?
Bring me my didgeridoo. I want to play it while I eat
this Vegemite sandwich.
- Bring me my didgeridoo.
- This limits the career in such a big way.
Because you could have played all of the Australian people
in Australian history.
- Wait, there's one, there's like a thing
that our kids say all the time with an Australian accent.
- Oy!
- How to be Single Leslie Mann.
- I was in a movie, How to be Single.
I watched part of it the other day and it's very good.
- And it was Jake Lacey was your love interest.
- Oh yeah, Jake Lacey.
- And you guys were adorable together,
but then we watched White Lotus
and he's like a dick. - He's so mean!
- He's an asshole.
- Yeah.
- What a great actor.
Because he was so charming with you.
- He was.
- And then so terrible to the other people.
I guess that's good acting.
- What is he like in real life?
- Adorable.
- Yeah. We don't know.
- I know. I worked with him on Girls. [Leslie laughs]
This has been Autocomplete with Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow.
I learned that like when people Google my name,
they're not looking for sexy pics of me.
Where on the internet are sexy pics of Judd?
Ever do a porno? What website is it on?
Their interest in me is limited, which is good.
You don't really want people Googling you that much.
You want people not Googling you.
- Yeah.