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Simon Pegg, king of the nerds

Nerdette

CHAPTER

The Differences Between Playing a Character You've Written and Acting in a Film

I love the writing process. It's really fun to machine tool a character from nothing into life and then get to play him. My sort of relationship with Edgar is Edgar Wright. We sit together we write the movie and then we separate into our respective roles as director and lead actor. You know so that as a as a as an actor and writer is the is the pinnacle for me. That's really cool.

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