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interview| DAVID SCHWIMMER
RUNNING
THE SHOW
Four years after Friends taped its last episode, David Schwimmer heads
down a new path as the director of Run, Fat Boy, Run I BY RON DICKER
After ending his 1994-2004 run as Ross Geller on the sitcom
Friends, David Schwimmer took the transatlantic route to
directing his first big-screen feature, Run, Fat Boy, Run.
He made his West End London theatre debut in Neil LaBute’s
Some Girls in 2005 and co-starred in the England- and Vancouvershot
Big Nothing, a blackmail caper that limped out of U.K.
movie theatres in 2006.
But something emerged from Nothing: Schwimmer cemented
his collaboration with co-star Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead and
Hot Fuzz fame. They tweaked Michael Ian Black’s Run, Fat Boy, Run
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script with Pegg starring as pudgy groom Dennis who leaves
his pregnant fiancée Libby (Thandie Newton) at the altar and
tries to win her back years later by racing in the London
Marathon. His saggy will power and Libby’s studly boyfriend Whit
(Hank Azaria) stand between Dennis and his one true love.
Schwimmer had his own long-distance race to get the lowbudget
comedy shot on time and on budget in a relatively
unfamiliar location. His previous directing experience was
confined to television, including 10 episodes of Friends.
“I was impressed on a daily basis with him in terms of
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