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Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.
Ed Helms
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Ed Helms
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 24
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There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.
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I didn't mention the tooth thing to anyone until it became clear that...we started to discuss just taking it out of the movie [The Hangover] because we couldn't find anything that worked and they couldn't afford to do a full like digital effect. So that's when I called my dentist and it worked out.
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