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How Playing a Veteran on TV Changed Desmin Borges

NPR

Published November 10, 2017 at 12:38 PM EST

Desmin Borges, actor on FX's You're the Worst, speaks about how he was able to play a character suffering from PTSD on a screwball comedy.

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