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We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.

Denis Leary

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Denis Leary
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 18
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Worcester
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