Happy Birthday: Leslie Mann

Leslie Mann

Born: March 26, 1972 in San Francisco, California, USA

Married to: Judd Apatow (9 June 1997 – present) (2 children)

(2007, on being directed by her husband Judd Apatow) He’s really fun. He was a stand-up comedian for a lot of years, so he has a lot of that skill, and it’s very loose and free. It’s not traditional, kind of memorize your lines and the director says “action” and then you do the scene, and then he says “cut” and makes adjustments, and you go on until he’s happy. With Judd, he says “action,” you read the scene, and then he re-writes it as we’re rolling, so he yells out a lot of different lines or different directions to take the scene in. It’s really fun. It really keeps you on your toes.

(2007, on Knocked Up) I think that was probably the most fun I’ve ever had acting, because I got to do a lot more. I feel like a lot of these scripts that people like me get have really underwritten female parts, and I think Judd (Apatow) did a really good job of writing the female parts of this movie, so that was obviously more fun for me.

(2007, on throwing up on Steve Carell on 40 Year Old Virgin) It was strawberry yogurt and some kind of kefir to make it a little runnier. I had to take big gulps of that and then spit it all over Steve.

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