"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."

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"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."

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"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."

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Actor

"A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect."

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