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My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
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