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'Friends' hunk Matt LeBlanc stars in new movie 'Ed'.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)

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| March 14, 1996 | Janusonis, Michael | COPYRIGHT 1996 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Most actors avoid working with scene-stealing animals.

But ``Friends'' star Matt LeBlanc says he had no second thoughts about co-starring with a baseball-playing chimpanzee in ``Ed,'' a movie that opens Friday. In the film, which will be LeBlanc's first feature film to see wide release, he plays a baseball pitcher who learns a lot about life from his teammate and roommate, the chimp who has the title role.

Actually, Ed isn't a real chimpanzee, but an animatronic mechanical creature. LeBlanc, who shot the film at the end of his first season of ``Friends'' when the TV show was just starting to become a national mania, says he was aware of that fact when he agreed to do the film.

``I think that it was sort of necessary to do it that way because to try and get a real chimp to do ...

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