"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."

People, Hope, Circumstances, Variety

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"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."

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