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Jason Schwartzman - one of the voice cast in Fantastic Mr Fox - is a regular in Wes Anderson's films, but still isn't at ease with being a public figure, despite his membership of the Coppola clan. He talks to DONALD CLARKE

JASON SCHWARTZMAN - neat in a gleaming white shirt and sharp black suit - admits to being nervous. You could view this as an unlikely development. Since he first caught our eye as the precocious teenage intellectual in Wes Anderson's Rushmore, Schwarztman has cornered the market in characters who flatten neuroses with arrogance. He was at it again earlier this year in Judd Apatow's Funny People. I imagine Schwarztman suavely brushing away any inclinations toward nervousness.