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Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.
M. Night Shyamalan
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M. Night Shyamalan
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 6
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