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Fri 12 Dec 2008Just be yourself
Bruce Willis and Sean Penn are the latest in a Hollywood tradition of movie stars playing themselves. Joe Griffinlooks at the good, the smart and the indulgent
THE PRACTICE of actors playing themselves in movies is usually beneficial to both film and star. The star's appearance makes a movie more marketable and it lends authenticity to the film. For actors it's an opportunity to show what good sports they are. The cameo takes the form either of an actor entering a scene as himself, or as an appearance in a work within the film.
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