as a whole. And if that wasn’t meta enough for you already: the play-within-a-show was partially inspired by a play Maude Apatow put on in her actual high school theater program., Apatow reflected on her spotlight episode — wittily titled “The Theater and Its Double” — admitting that it was both fun and challenging to film. “It took a long time to film that sequence because it was so complicated,” she said about her experience shooting the play.
“There were a lot of audience shots to consider [and] Sam had to make sure that the shots in the play connected to real memories and they had to be perfectly timed and interwoven.”creator Sam Levinson has controversially upheld a rather infamous reputation as the show’swriter. Despite this, though, Apatow admitted that her episode, in particular, was more of a “semi-collaboration” with the frequent director.