The conversation, which also included documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville, took some surprising turns at the Academy Museum's Ted Mann Theater in L.A. Paul McCartney met up with Judd Apatow for a 45-minute conversation following a screening of “Man on the Run” in Los Angeles Monday night, and it was very much a case of banter on the run. With Apatow at the helm, the chat took some comical turns, as might be expected, and also some unusually revealing ones, as Apatow getting McCartney to loosen up provided some real personal asides as well as screwball dialogue.
By most standards, it was probably the most irreverent interview the former Beatles has ever participated in. Morgan Neville, the director of the Wings doc being screened, also participated in the discusssion, playing straight man and looking decidedly amused — if not anxious — when Apatow turned the conversation toward drugs or McCartney’s experiences with naked men in a Japanese prison. The occasion was an FYC event for “Man on the Run” being held in the Academy Museum’s Ted Mann Theater, where 275 attendees got to experience some relative intimacy with a McCartney who seemed ready to meet Apatow at his level of candor and comic asides.
We’re the people who were like, ‘Was there a band before Wings?'” “I was born before that,” quipped McCartney, immediately getting into the spirit of things. Asked by Apatow if he looked forward to dealing with the 10-year period between 1970-1980 in the Amazon Prime documentary that came out earlier this year (along with an accompanying book), McCartney said, “No, I like that period. It was, what do you do after the Beatles?
You know, the Beatles break up, that’s been your only job you’ve ever had, and then you don’t have it anymore. It’s like you got sacked. So that was Wings, trying to figure it out.
And, as you can see in the film we did, well, it’s kind of madcap.” Apatow told Neville and McCartney that he saw the film as “a slight nervous breakdown movie — right? There’s a mental health challenge. The Beatles ended; you wanted to live with sheep.” “Yes.
I do love sheep,” said McCartney. I’m sure any of you can imagine that. You’ve got this great job, it’s all going great, and then suddenly you haven’t got this great job and it’s not going so great.
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