Pete Davidson and the Cast of The King of Staten Island Touch on the Tone of Judd Apatow’s Dark Comedy

SNL star Pete Davidson strikes a more somber note in The King of Staten Island, which is loosely based on his own life and the loss of his firefighter father on 9/11. The actor says he and director/producer Judd Apatow wanted to make the dark comedy as “authentic and transparent as possible” to show a family dealing with tragedy and overcoming it.