From Collider:
Alison Pill is an actress you need to know. She’s already made a name for herself on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award in 2006. She also co-starred in Milk and gave an amazing performance in second season of HBO’s In Treatment where she played a college student diagnosed with cancer.

You’ll need to know her because not only is she a great actress, but because she has one of the best roles in Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Pill plays Kim Pine, an ex-girlfriend/friend of Scott’s who knows when to take him down a peg. Her cynical attitude adds variety to the comedy and she also has one of the best lines in the series: “Scott, I wish I could punch your life in the face.” On a visit to the set, we interviewed Pill about playing Kim, becoming a kick-ass drummer, filming in Toronto where she grew up, and more.

Hit the jump to check out the interview. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World hits theaters on August 13th.

I hope you get to say the line about, “Scott, I wish I could punch your life in the face,” in the movie. Do you get to say that one?

ALLISON PILL: I do.

Excellent.

PILL: I do. I’m lucky. I have some very good lines.

How much of the back story between you and Scott do we get to see, because there’s a lot of it in the books.

PILL: There’s a lot of back story.

Do they get to fit that in or…?

PILL: Not really fit in. Like the Scott-Exes are sort of less part of the story than the Ramona-Exes. So though it’s hinted at and we get some of it sort of inferred, there’s not…we don’t really flash back to high school.

Is there anything particular you wish had been left in that was cut?

PILL: The Knives make out. (laughter). And then, like I grew up in Toronto and my sister and I just went to the regular Sunday night show at Sneaky D’s and I wish we had Sneaky D’s in there. We have so many other great Toronto landmarks but Sneaky D’s is missing. And the nachos.

Were you aware of the comic at all?

PILL: I didn’t know the comic at all, which is really funny because I grew up here and I had friends who worked at all of the places. Like The Beguiling, which is a store here, and Suspect Video and one of my friends actually worked at Suspect and The Beguiling. So it’s kind of crazy that I’d never known the books before.
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