I first caught Amy Schumer‘s stand-up just scrolling through Spotify and in small doses she’s pretty damned funny. I haven’t yet seen her show on Comedy Central, but I’ve been meaning to give it a look and now she’s moving on up to the big time, starring in Judd Apatow‘s latest movie Trainwreck alongside Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Tilda Swinton and a load of cameo appearances of varying size including Daniel Radcliffe, Colin Quinn, Barkhad Abdi, Mike Birbiglia, Vanessa Bayer, Method Man, LeBron James, John Cena and Ezra Miller. Today we get the first look behind the scenes via the above picture from the New York Times.
The “Times” piece reveals Schumer penned the original script, but she and Apatow teamed after hearing her on the “Howard Stern Show” and got in touch with her to bounce some ideas off one another:
They abandoned her original idea — they declined to divulge what it was — and came up with a story plumbed heavily from Ms. Schumer’s life, about a commitment-averse woman trying to get past her self-sabotaging ways. In other words, pitch-perfect Apatow fare.
You can read the full piece here, Trainwreck is set to hit theaters on July 24, 2015.
