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In 2018, Noah Segan put the script that would eventually become The Only Living Pickpocket in New York in front of his best friend, Rian Johnson . That’s when Johnson called his shot, minus the Babe Ruth-style gesture toward center field.

Segan, a native New Yorker, first met Johnson in 2003 after being cast in the latter’s feature directorial debut, Brick . They’ve been thick as thieves ever since, with Segan popping up in just about everything Johnson has done to date. That includes a key supporting role in 2012’s Looper , which Johnson went to bat to secure for his friend, as well as the unnamed fireman who found Holly White abandoned in a firetruck in the landmark Johnson-directed episode of Breaking Bad , “Ozymandias.”

The turning point in Segan’s development as a storyteller arrived in 2017, following the birth of his first child with wife Alison Bennett, an accomplished television writer.…