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Judd Apatow on Playing a ‘Generic A-hole Producer’ in James Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’

Filmmaker also rejects Franco’s comments about his cameo role in film about making of ”The Room“

| December 6, 2017 @ 4:22 PM

Judd Apatow in The Disaster Artist

Judd Apatow didn’t realize he was playing a version of himself when he signed on to a cameo role in “The Disaster Artist.”

TheWrap caught up with Apatow about his upcoming Netflix stand-up special, out December 12, and asked Apatow about his experience playing a caricature role.

“I was laughing with James Franco because when he asked me to do ‘The Disaster Artist,’ he said I would play an asshole producer,” the comedian told TheWrap. “So [in the movie], you see me, I’m dining with a very young woman and it all seems pretty awful and then I’m very mean to Tommy.”

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“It’s not going to happen for you,” Apatow tells Franco as “The Room” creator Tommy Wiseau in the movie. “Not in a million years.”

“And then I read in the paper James is saying I’m playing a version of myself and I was like ‘James, I’m not playing a version of myself. I’m playing a generic asshole producer.’ But then I realized, maybe I am a generic asshole producer,” Apatow added with a laugh. 

“I never find anything about myself interesting, so whenever I accept an acting part–which is very rarely–I usually am only comfortable playing something a little more extreme.”

You can catch Apatow’s cameo when the movie hits theaters everywhere December 8.

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