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Sunday August 1, 2010

ACTOR Kevin Kline admits he completely wrecked the car her drove in his new movie The Extra Man.

In the film, the star — who’s famous for his dodgy driving — plays an eccentric (and unsuccessful) playwright who rents the spare room in his New York City apartment out to an aspiring journalist (Paul Dano) who is new to the city.

“Did I crash? Is the car in one piece? Not that it matters. It was a complete wreck,” Kevin told Collider.

“Well the fact is, the movie was done so inexpensively, notice I didn’t say cheaply, on a very tight budget, so usually when you’re doing a driving scene you have a police escort or you ‘own’ the street and it’s all filled with extras and all the cars you see in it, they’re all driven by stunt men — but not us.

“We’re out in a street and it’s rush hour and everybody’s moving about five miles an hour stop and start and I’m supposed to be racing around and [Paul Dano is] supposed to be saying ‘slow down!’ so I just did the best I could…The guy in the back with the camera thought he was gonna die…but he didn’t. I just drove as, you know, did a lot of swerving and stuff…”

Kline — who is married to actress Phoebe Cates — also spoke about the possibility of working in film with his family.

“At the moment none of them is interested in acting,” he said. “Not at all. My son’s going to art school next year, he just graduated school. He might be a filmmaker but he says at the moment he’s more interested in being behind the camera. That could change. That could change. I didn’t know what I wanted, I went to college to study music. How did I end up here?”

Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline

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