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I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

Kenneth Branagh

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Kenneth Branagh
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 10
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Sir Kenneth Charles Ken Branagh
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