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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

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Christian Slater
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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New York City
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Christian Michael Leonard Slater
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