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I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Anton Yelchin

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Anton Yelchin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1989
Born: March 11
Died: 2016
Died: June 19
Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
St. Petersburg
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin
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I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.
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