Pete Davidson: Goal of new film was to help me move forward after father’s death

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Pete Davidson has said he hoped making a film that addressed his grief over the death of his father would help him “move forward, and find that new chapter in life”.

The comedian, 26, who was seven when his firefighter father died in the September 11 terrorist attacks, plays an aspiring tattoo artist dealing with the loss of his own firefighter father in the movie The King Of Staten Island, which he also co-wrote.

Discussing how it felt to make himself vulnerable in the film, he told the PA news agency: “It was a little scary, but everybody really made me feel really comfortable and one of the main goals in making this film was not only for the character in the movie but for me personally, was to be able to move forward, and find that new