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The Great Creators with Guy Raz

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The Importance of Being a Good Actor

I got my first role, my senior year of high school and it was a Lawrence Kasin movie. He actually saw me in a school play too. I didn't tell anybody that I'd done a movie. Like the whole time I was there, I was like, I don't want anyone to know because the movie hadn't come out yet. But funnily enough, I went to high school with Kate Hudson. She was a year ahead of me. So we did many plays together. And then she ended up playing one of the lead characters,. Penny Lane, had been cast in my role. Turned out that the movie had been all cast and Kate Hudson, who ended up

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