Torontoist chats with Bryan Lee O’Malley about Scott Pilgrim, the film adaptation, Toronto and Honest Ed’s:

It’s kind of amusing because Toronto is used for movies all the time but it never plays itself. Is the Scott Pilgrim movie going to change that?

Yeah, that’s what Edgar Wright [the attached director] was saying. He thought it would be funny to shoot a film in Toronto that’s set in Toronto, because no one ever does it.

How do you think cinema audiences are going to take to a reference like Honest Ed’s?

I don’t know if it’s in the movie, actually. Edgar and the screenwriter came to visit Toronto last year and I took them to Honest Ed’s. We all got headaches.

Yeah, a while back I was in this area with a headache but the only pharmacy I could find was in Honest Ed’s. I decided to stick with the headache I already had. But I guess with the movie then you’re sticking to a hands-off approach?

Yeah, pretty much. They ask me questions and we have a rapport, but I don’t want that much responsibility. I don’t want too much responsibility, so if it sucks it’s not my fault.

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