Maude Apatow Knows She's Deemed a Product of Nepotism. She Wants To
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Friday, June 19, 2020 Shawwal 27, 1441 AH Doha today: 290 - 420 Maude Apatow knows she’s deemed a product of nepotism. She wants to prove herself. P2-3 COVER STORY Unplugged CUISINE BACK PAGE Baked spaghetti The refugee pasta. standup night. Page 6 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Friday, June 19, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “It’s really important to me to show that I PRAYER TIME work really hard” Fajr 3.13am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.45am Zuhr (noon) 11.37am — Maude Apatow, actress, on getting Asr (afternoon) 3pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.28pm Isha (night) 7.58pm past her director dad USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Office (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 ote Unquo Qu te “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” — Dalai Lama My parents were very supportive of me getting help and reading books Community Editor about it and learning about mental Kamran Rehmat health at a young age, and I think e-mail: [email protected] that was a big advantage for me Telephone: 44466405 44350474 Fax: ‘ — Maude Apatow ’ Friday, June 19, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY By Amy Kaufman “I’m always thinking I need ust before the coronavirus to keep going. became a global pandemic, Maude Apatow was I don’t know planning on finally moving how to say out of her parents’ house. JShe’d found a few apartments that this without piqued her interest and scheduled times to tour them. But when the sounding emo, city went on lockdown, she put her plans on hold, instead hunkering but I’m pretty down in Brentwood with her mom, hard on myself. dad and 17-year-old sister. “It’s been fun, I guess — there I should stop are definitely ups and downs,” said Apatow, 22, with a telling smile. and be happy She had retreated to her mother’s office to conduct a Zoom interview, sometimes, one of the few spots in the house but I’m very where she doesn’t worry that “someone will start screaming in “onto the next” the background or embarrass me.” It was during quarantine that mindset” the actress and her dad, director Judd Apatow, began discussing — Maude the possibility of debuting his new Apatow movie via on-demand instead of ACTION: Maude Apatow plays Henrietta in Ryan Murphy’s brand new Netflix drama Hollywood. postponing its theatrical release. The film, The King of Staten to do other projects showing I was was very ambitious. When I got to the entire time. I get very flustered the time, you can justify those Island, stars SNL comedian Pete capable of doing work without their college, I started auditioning all the when I’m put on the spot or have to thoughts. The last few weeks I’ve Davidson as a wannabe tattoo artist help, I was apprehensive about time — taping auditions. And then talk for a long time. I had really bad been stressed out, for sure. struggling to find his purpose after it. But then I thought, “I haven’t I got Euphoria, and it just wasn’t OCD in middle and high school. I’ve the death of his father. Maude has a worked with my dad since I was realistic to be able to fly back and gone to OCD treatment. My parents How do you cope with your supporting role, playing Davidson’s 12,” and I really look up to him as a forth from Illinois every week. I were very supportive of me getting anxiety? sister — the younger-but-more- mentor figure in my life. I want to haven’t fully put school off yet. I help and reading books about it and My parents are very big into mature sibling who leaves for be a director someday, and getting still maybe would like to go back at learning about mental health at a meditation, so they’ve always college while her brother is still to watch my dad do what he does is some point. young age, and I think that was a told me to meditate. So the Calm living at home. very important to me. I don’t know big advantage for me. Obviously, app, Headspace … reality TV is “When my dad first told me when I’m ever going to do this again Did you like it while you were I’m not done learning and it’s still a another thing that makes me feel about the release plans, there and it just felt like, “Why would there? problem. But I think I’ve gotten to I can fully relax into something was an option to wait a year, like I not do it?” I’m gonna spend my Oh, yeah. I had a lot of fun, and a place where I’m able to be more else and distract myself. Ru Paul’s so many movies that have been whole life trying to prove myself as I’m really glad I went. I was in a productive. But seeing Euphoria Drag Race. I fall asleep to The pushed,” she recalled. “And we an individual, and that’s a chip on sorority — Tri Delt. And we went to and having them talk about OCD Great British Bake Off, because it were like, ‘I feel like a lot of people my shoulder. It’s really important football games and did tailgating, and that pressure — I’d never seen makes me feel super relaxed. 90 might watch it right now because to me to show that I work really and I think that’s why I liked it in a show where it felt so real and Day Fiance. I still can’t believe everyone has already gone through hard, because I do. I want to be an Northwestern, because it was very I felt so connected to it. Lana was real. She didn’t even give so much content.’ I’m sad about not individual. academic but we had a lot of fun. David a two-handed hug. I say to seeing it with an audience, but it How has the pandemic people: “If you haven’t seen it, might be a good time for it, fingers How different was it working You’ve said that part of what impacted your anxiety? it’s the best reality show I’ve ever crossed.” with him when you were 12 appealed to you about doing Pretty badly. With surfaces seen.” I can’t even believe what Dressed in a BTS sweatshirt she versus in your 20s? Euphoria was the way the — now they’re saying it’s not I’m watching. It feels so invasive, bought at one of the K-pop band’s I acted when I was a kid, but not show represented obsessive really spread that way, but that’s and it’s so insane. I watch every concerts, Apatow spoke to The really, because I was so young. My compulsive disorder. What something I’m always thinking spinoff. Times in mid-May about her new dad said this the other day: ‘It was has your experience been with about anyway. As someone who is movie, her roles in the television almost like a simulation of our real anxiety? anxious or OCD, you’re constantly Now that you’ve had three series Hollywood and Euphoria and life.’ We were doing what we did Even though it makes work a lot having the thoughts, but you’ve major projects come out in making a name for herself. normally at breakfast or whatever. more challenging sometimes for found a way to brush them aside the span of a year, do you feel And now — I would never say this me, I really do everything I can to and dismiss them. But when it like you’re on your way to You acted in some of your to him, because it’s cringey to say not let it get in the way. Even this starts to become a real concern, establishing yourself outside of dad’s movies when you were it to my dad — but I wanted to do a interview, I’m in a full-blown panic like now, and it’s in your face all your parents? (Apatow’s mother a kid. How did he bring up the good job for him, and his opinion is the actress Leslie Mann.) idea of you appearing in Staten of me as an actor is probably the Island? most important to me. But my dad I’m always thinking I need to It was pretty close to when we also makes self-tapes with me and keep going. I don’t know how to were about to shoot. Pete had said knows how to make me be a better say this without sounding emo, but something about it, and I don’t actor. I’m pretty hard on myself. I should think my dad was super open to the stop and be happy sometimes, but idea at first. I think he was hesitant. Does he read lines with you I’m very “onto the next” mindset.