This week Alec talks with Judd Apatow, whose films include \u2018The 40 Year Old Virgin,\u2019 \u2018Knocked Up,\u2019 and \u2018Funny People;\u2019 all of which feature emotionally immature men forced to grow up after confronting, respectively -- sex, responsibility and death. Of all Apatow\u2019s movies, his most recent, \u201cThis is 40\u201d, which opened the weekend before Christmas, may be his most personal and stars his wife, Leslie Mann, and their two daughters.
Apatow talks with Alec about working with some of his heroes, like Albert Brooks: \u201cobviously I\u2019m terrified \u2018cause I\u2019m working with someone who\u2019s clearly more talented than me.\u201d For Apatow, each movie he makes is \u201ca letter to myself telling me something that I need to know about how to live my life."
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