What to Watch this Weekend: Pete Davidson and Judd Apatow unite for The King of Staten Island
), who happens to be on the job, just like his dad. The story is a personal one for Davidson, as his own father, Scott Davidson, was a firefighter and died on 9/11. “The movie is an imagining of what Pete's life might have been like if he never found comedy,”. “Comedy really was his savior, it gave him direction.
And in the movie, he's someone who is flailing about, not sure what he should do with his life. He wants to be a tattoo artist but he really hasn't tried that hard. A lot of what we discussed was how when you have a loss in your family it brings up all of these issues that take a long time to work through. By writing this movie and thinking through his life, he hopefully had a cathartic experience trying to let go of a lot of the obstacles that have complicated his life.
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