Leslie Mann

VANITIES

All Is VANITIES... Nothing Is Fair

JUNE

2007

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AGE: 35. PIOVENANCE Befitting her statuesque blondeness, Southern California: San Diego, then Newport Beach. YOU LI. IEh4EMBEE HEE AS.. the terrifyingly inebriated beauty who semi-seduces Steve Carell in 2005's The 40Year-Old Virgin-whose writer-director, Judd Apatow, is Mr. Leslie Mann. "Any of the stuff that Judd's working on, all of the ideas are kind of kicked around in the house," Mann says. "And so, with the drunk girl inVirgin,we just started talking about it, and then suddenly it became something that would be fun to do." AND NOW SHE S ON THE VERGE OF REVEALING EVEN MORE OF HER COMEDIC GIFTS IN . Apatow's latest,Knocked Up,a summer-hit-to-be that she and Paul Rudd steal as, respectively, the cranky older sister and bedraggled brother-in-law of the impregnated Katherine Heigl. "It's all true," she says of the scenes from a (dysfunctional) marriage. "Poor Paul Rudd—I feel bad for him, because I just really went there with him, and I don't think he knew what to do with me." FROM INGENUE IN THE CABLE GUY (1996) AND BIG DADDY (1999) TO LAFF HOUSE MATRIARCH: "Both of our kids are in the movie, Maude and Iris. I don't know what other households are like, if funny stuff is encouraged. But I never laugh at anything Judd says anymore," Mann says, chuckling. "Well, sometimes—if it's earned. Like, if he says something that's really funny and we laugh, he knows that it is truly funny; we're not just giving him the complimentary laugh."

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