![]() ![]() ![]() Prim and proper, wearing an ivory button-down blouse with a scalloped Peter Pan collar, she bursts with childlike excitement when he nonchalantly replies, “Sure.” A montage that depicts Lexi as the writer, director, and creator of a project called This is Life appears onscreen, while Rue’s voice narrates: “She was an observer. It’s an uncanny moment in which life imitates art: Apatow’s ambition to write and direct movies, plays, and television series suddenly puts Lexi’s own dreams into focus. On the phone, the self-described theater nerd (her favorite musical is Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George) tells me that while writing her entire life, she once briefly considered becoming a journalist. (“But then I realized I wasn’t good at that,” she says with a jittery chortle.) She started to take the craft much more seriously while she was in school at Northwestern University. There, she met a friend who became her writing partner, and even after she left school (just before snagging her role in Euphoria), they have continued to work together. During the pandemic, they’d hop on Zoom with one another and flesh out ideas. These days, they visit one another’s apartments for writing sessions. “We’ll sit for days and weeks and just write all day,” she recalls. Once we get going, we power through.” It’s proven to be a fruitful practice: Apatow sold her first script over the summer, and is now in the development phase for the project.
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