Article posted: 11/22/2012 6:00 AM

Josh Peck enjoys taking on sacred ‘Dawn’

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Josh Peck, left, joins Josh Hutcherson and Chris Hemsworth as freedom fighters in the USA invasion thriller remake "Red Dawn."

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"Red Dawn" gave actor Josh Peck his first chance to brandish some military firearms. How did he like it? "Super fun!" he told me. "When you're letting that aggression — these are real guns shooting blanks — there's an odd sort of fantasy fulfillment that has to do with it. It was just exciting! I don't know anyone, male or female, who hasn't had that fantasy of letting a machine gun roar."