Though “The King of Staten Island” is based in part on the real life of Pete Davidson, costume designer Sarah Mae Burton (“The Big Sick”) knew she didn’t want Davidson’s character to look like the “SNL” cast member.“Pete has a distinctive style [“scrumbo” — logos, sweats, Hawaiian shirts and neon] in the media, and we wanted to make sure we weren’t dressing him like that,” she says.In the Judd Apatow film, which Universal is offering on VOD on June 12, Davidson plays Scott, a young man still mourning his firefighter father, who died on the job when Scott was 7.
Scott, who still lives at home, has a bad case of arrested development and passes his time smoking weed and hanging out with his friends.
His dream is to become a tattoo artist.“He doesn’t wear super expensive things,” Burton explains.
“And when he does, he might have saved up for those items.” Or,
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