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With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

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Alessandro Nivola
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 28
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Boston
Massachusetts
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