If it costs a lot to film a real actor in a car crash--or if you want to create an effect a human couldn't do safely--use a computerized actor .

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So in many ways, I think that his personality is a little bit more of a mystery to us, and I think that a young actor can come in there and sort of create his own, you know, sort of idea of what Biggie was like and who Biggie was.

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But Ms. Delpy and her collaborators, actor-writer Ethan Hawke and writer-director Richard Linklater, would go on to create "Before Sunset" (2004) and "Before Midnight, " which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles after an enthusiastic reception on the festival circuit.

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