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Brit teen in Spielberg's Tintin film

British teen actor Thomas Sangster to play Tintin

LONDON: British teen actor Thomas Sangster has been chosen to play Tintin in a big screen adaptation of comic adventures of the fictitious young Belgian reporter.

Seventeen-year-old Sangster, who has appeared in films as 'Love Actually' and 'Nanny McPhee,' was picked by Steven Spielberg, who is directing the first in a trilogy of Tintin films, reports said

"I loved Tintin when I was younger," Sangster was quoted as saying by the British press. "I didn't read any of the books but I really got into the (television) cartoon. I wasn't good at reading when I was younger but the cartoon was a good memory for me," he added.