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With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me.

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Mia Wasikowska
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: October 25
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