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It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a real challenge. I thought, How am I going to pull off this character? But, I also thought, Oh, man, I'm going to go for it. He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

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Lance Henriksen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 5
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When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.
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I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.
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