Tobey Maguire urges more support for troops after life changing role
3 Nov 2009, 1331 Hrs

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Washington, November 3 Tobey Maguire has urged his fellow Americans to show more support towards troops returning from combat overseas after playing a life changing role in a new film.

The Spider-Man actor confessed he is a changed man after playing an Afghanistan veteran in new drama Brothers.

"I lost a lot of my joy while doing the movie," Contactmusic quoted the star as saying.

The 34-year-old further told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: "In the area of our veterans coming home with traumas or PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) or whatever, it's one of those issues that isn't pretty to look at.

"We ask these people to fight for us and risk their lives, and certainly potentially alter their outlook of the world or how they react to things.

"I think it would be nice for us as a society to have some more awareness of what they go through, and to take on some more responsibility for the results of our asking them to go over there." (ANI)

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