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Michael Esper: The New York Theater Actor

"I always feel like people with like small parts in a couple lines and like extras. That's when you know, like if a director is any good," he said. "He really inspired me." The actor who played the cop was Michael Esper (of New York theater fame), according to Niam McNeary. She says she doesn't remember much of what happened on set but that they were very coy about their intentions.

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