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I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

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Alessandro Nivola
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 28
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Boston
Massachusetts
Alessandro Antine Nivola
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You're making these movies for pennies, there's absolutely nothing to offer anybody, and they will still fight you! There's no more back-end for him? Well he'll have your back-end! He'll take your first born child! Producing is totally exhausting.
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There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.
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