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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Characters created with computer graphics over a motion-captured performance. This is named after Andy Serkis, who was transformed by CGI wizardry into the characters of Gollum (from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) and King Kong for Peter Jackson's films. The story goes that Jackson planned for Gollum to be entirely computer-generated and Andy Serkis to only provide the voice, but was so impressed by Serkis's mannerisms and facial expressions in his audition that he decided they just had to capture it somehow, leading to Andy physically playing the part as well. Thus Andy was on-set with the other actors performing the character, rather than the original plan where the actors pretended somebody was there. This turned out to be beneficial: the actors could play against a fellow performer, and any interactions Andy made on set would be captured on camera, such as stepping in water, throwing rocks, or pawing Frodo's petticoat. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The trope name is a Pun on the phrase "circus folk". Historically, this technique originated even earlier from performance models used for reference or outright Rotoscoping. Technique and technology evolves, though, and the production may use different methods to achieve the same effect. An actor can be simply in a green suit to be used as reference points for other actors, the actor may wear a modified suit with reference dots on all joints so the VFX artists can recreate their unique performance, or there may be a real time performance setup, a facial capture headset and motion-captured camera objects in order to create a virtual set. Any method can land in the Unintentional Uncanny Valley if the CGI overlay doesn't work, or if it wasn't meant to work. Avatar and The Adventures of Tintin were performed on an indoor motion capture set where everything is CG, but the actors still provide the core body, facial and vocal performances. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The same methods can be used for a partial CG replacement, typically placing an actor's face on a robot body. Even if the entire character is not created this way, the nature of big special effects movies often involve the actors doing the exact same thing wearing a motion capture suit. Video games and All-CGI Cartoon will of course do this regularly. The line between this trope and Roger Rabbit Effect is difficult to define—generally, the latter uses hand-drawn animation, and the animated characters are treated as animated in-universe or are otherwise acknowledged to be distinct from their live-action surroundings through sheer art style. As well, Serkis Folk are almost always played by an actor with similar proportions as their character on-camera. See also Ink-Suit Actor, 2D Visuals, 3D Effects, Double Vision and Starring Special Effects. Also, see Digital De Aging, where similar technology is used to take years off of an actor's face. Examples |
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The Terminator franchise gradually switched to using this method to portray the skeleton puppets, which was typically done practically before. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines rendered its main villain entirely, although the liquid metal effect for the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day was a forerunner to A LOT of these effects. | |
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The Beast and several of the Enchanted Objects in Beauty and the Beast (2017). | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: Andy Serkis plays against type by playing Ulysses Klaue, who is not a CG creation. Though he did act as a consultant for the mo-cap of Ultron and the Hulk. James Spader utilized motion-capture suits for all of Ultron's scenes, including his first form (which doesn't have a face). Every subsequent form of the character has facial expressions added to it in order to convey emotion. |
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Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace was the first entirely CGI major character to be blended with live-action actors. Actor Ahmed Best acted on set wearing a Jar Jar costume with hat for the benefit of the other actors, as his long neck and duck-like beak to too inhuman to be a practical animatronic mask, and was superimposed over by the CGI. The actor's costume was quite immaculate already, as the original intention was just replacing a CG neck and head on his body, but it turned out to be easier to just make the whole character from scratch, rather than stick a CGI head on existing footage. There are a few shots where Jar Jar's face isn't visible, so it was cheaper to go with the live-action Best. After learning that it was easier to create Jar Jar entirely in CGI, George Lucas grumpily said, "So I just spent $10,000 on a costume that I don't need." | |
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In order to avoid the look of the character from the past movies, The 2015 Fantastic Four has Jamie Bell providing the voice and motion capture work for The Thing. They even brought in his old motion capture coach from The Adventures of Tintin to help out. | |
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The BioDreads in Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future was one of the first examples of this in a television series. | |
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MirrorMask featured a number of completely CGI characters. | |
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Oum's other Rooster Teeth series, RWBY, also makes heavy use of motion capture for non-action sequences. Some of the voice actors actually provide the mo-cap performances for their own characters. | |
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is an example of puppetry getting successfully updated into Serkis Folk with Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet. As an added homage to the original animation, dubbed Supermarionation in the original, the CGI used in the new series was called Hypermarionation. | |
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This technique was used for Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, with Josh Brolin providing the Mad Titan's voice and motion capture. The Children of Thanos (Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, and Cull Obsidian) were created this way as well. | |
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The titular character (along with the other police droids) in Chappie, as played by Sharlto Copley. | |
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Zemeckis was to use this process in a remake of Yellow Submarine but it was sidelined by Disney for going over budget and the poor box office performance of Mars Needs Moms. | |
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Alita in Alita: Battle Angel, as well as a number of other characters. Ed Skrein had his entire body replaced except for his face. | |
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The dance choreography for Persona 4: Dancing All Night and others in the series are animated using motion capture. | |
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At least a few of the CGI characters in Immortal. | |
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In Rogue One, two characters from the original trilogy return via this method — Guy Henry donned performance capture gear and did a Peter Cushing impression to play Wilhuff Tarkin and Ingvild Deila did the same for Princess Leia in a scene at the end, with help from archive audio. Subverted for other characters who were recast (Mon Mothma), played by the same actors as before (Bail Organa, Vader's voice) or appear with the help of original trilogy footage off the cutting room floor. Additionally, Cassian's snarky reprogrammed KX security droid buddy K-2SO is portrayed on-set and voiced by Alan Tudyk wearing a mocap suit and stilts. KX droids are over seven feet tall (~2m) and have large torsos and very skinny limbs about as wide as human limb bones, making them impossible to turn into a wearable costume. | |
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist | |
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A couple of monsters in Star Trek (2009). | |
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The 2004 CGI adaptation of Shirow's Appleseed uses significant motion capture for all the characters. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy, Vin Diesel performed all the motion capture for Groot (whom he also voiced) used in the final version of the film. Another actor was used as a "stopgap" before he was cast, but none of his footage was ultimately used. Sean Gunn provided all of the motion capture for Rocket. | |
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For the Metal Gear series, it began with MGS 3 to 4, with recent mo-cap sequences used in Revengence and Phantom Pain. | |
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Saints Row: The Third, though it doesn't always mean that the voice actor is mocapping his or her actual character. | |
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Enter the Matrix was at the time the most expensive game ever made, due to the heavy use of motion-capture and using live-action footage shot specifically for the game. | |
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Two-Face's scarring received this treatment in The Dark Knight. The logic was they wanted to have flesh removed from his face, and traditional make-up can only add material, not subtract it. | |
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Done with Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6. | |
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The house elves Dobby and Kreacher from Harry Potter (in the seventh film, they even decided to put stand-ins in the set instead of having actors acting with the empty). | |
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The eponymous character of Kangaroo Jack. | |
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The Rainbow Six Vegas games. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe The Incredible Hulk in both movies (in the first one, director Ang Lee himself provided the motion capture), and also in The Avengers, with motion capture provided by Banner's actor Mark Ruffalo. Avengers: Age of Ultron: Andy Serkis plays against type by playing Ulysses Klaue, who is not a CG creation. Though he did act as a consultant for the mo-cap of Ultron and the Hulk. James Spader utilized motion-capture suits for all of Ultron's scenes, including his first form (which doesn't have a face). Every subsequent form of the character has facial expressions added to it in order to convey emotion. This technique was used for Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, with Josh Brolin providing the Mad Titan's voice and motion capture. The Children of Thanos (Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, and Cull Obsidian) were created this way as well. In Guardians of the Galaxy, Vin Diesel performed all the motion capture for Groot (whom he also voiced) used in the final version of the film. Another actor was used as a "stopgap" before he was cast, but none of his footage was ultimately used. Sean Gunn provided all of the motion capture for Rocket. Spider-Man: Far From Home: Mysterio is a rare In-Universe example - the Mysterio we see during his fights with the Elementals is an illusion, controlled by the real Quentin Beck via a mocap suit. Conveniently, the fake Mysterio never removes his Fishbowl Helmet, which is part of Beck's mocap rig. He is able to switch between a practical costume and the illusionary superhero with ease. Then, at the end, Beck takes it up another level — the mocap suit Beck is revealed to be an illusion, created so Beck can invisibly sneak up and shoot Peter in the head. |
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The first few Mortal Kombat games used this trope. | |
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Binary Domain. | |
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Ares's final form in Wonder Woman is created this way, with only David Thewlis's head being retained. | |
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Every Halo game from Halo: Reach onward uses motion capture. Of note is that the Master Chief has consistently had the same motion capture performer, Bruce Thomas, ever since Halo 4. | |
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All of the alien "prawns" in District 9. | |
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: Everyone. There are even cases of mo-capping for two. | |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home: Mysterio is a rare In-Universe example - the Mysterio we see during his fights with the Elementals is an illusion, controlled by the real Quentin Beck via a mocap suit. Conveniently, the fake Mysterio never removes his Fishbowl Helmet, which is part of Beck's mocap rig. He is able to switch between a practical costume and the illusionary superhero with ease. Then, at the end, Beck takes it up another level — the mocap suit Beck is revealed to be an illusion, created so Beck can invisibly sneak up and shoot Peter in the head. | |
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Warcraft used this method to create its cast of Orc characters. | |
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The Flash (2014): Gorilla Grodd is done via motion-capture by Simon Burnett and voiced by David Sobolov. Savitar is portrayed via motion-capture by Andre Tricoteux and voiced by Tobin Bell. |
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Cyborg was crafted using Ray Fisher's performance capture on set, which included a movable headpiece to render the glow from his one mechanical eye. Given the Troubled Production of the movie, it's an interesting sight to see where it is rendered perfectly versus when it was sloppily thrown together. | |
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Doctor Manhattan in the film adaptation of Watchmen. A combination of the actor's face, and a bodybuilder's physique. Due to his otherworldly glow, the suit was laced with hundreds of LED lights. | |
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West: Made use of the Trope Namer, of all people, to animate Monkey in the game's Cut Scenes. And Mose from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide plays Trip. | |
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Star Trek was a little slow to embrace these effects due to uneven quality, as Species 8472 in Star Trek: Voyager was the first rendered this way to emphasize their entirely inhuman appearance. Star Trek: Enterprise used it more often, even rendering Original Series aliens like the Gorn like this. | |
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Sonny and the rest of the I, Robot robots, with movements provided by the guy from Strictly Ballroom. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Season 8 saw Rooster Teeth beginning to use CGI and motion capture along with their usual machinima, courtesy of Monty Oum, the guy who made Haloid and Dead Fantasy. | |
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ReBoot started out with their character animation entirely done by hand. But eventually the studio Mainframe Entertainment was conscripted for some DTV animated projects that involved motion capture, and thus between season three and the Un-Canceled season four, there is a notable difference in how the characters move and express themselves due to Motion Capture. | |
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DC Extended Universe Several of Zod's soldiers in Man of Steel were CG creations, especially an 8-foot enforcer Superman had to fight in Smallville. Doomsday in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was actually voiced and performance captured by Robin Atkin Downes. Ares's final form in Wonder Woman is created this way, with only David Thewlis's head being retained. Cyborg was crafted using Ray Fisher's performance capture on set, which included a movable headpiece to render the glow from his one mechanical eye. Given the Troubled Production of the movie, it's an interesting sight to see where it is rendered perfectly versus when it was sloppily thrown together. Also in Justice League (2017), the main villain of Steppenwolf was created this way, with the performance coming from Ciarán Hinds. Zack Snyder's Justice League has a new (and much improved) model for Steppenwolf, and also includes Darkseid (performed by Ray Porter) and DeSaad (Peter Guinness). |
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In Power Rangers (2017), Alpha 5 and Zordon are Serkis People, with Bill Hader donning a motion capture suit to play the former (whom he also voices) and Bryan Cranston having his performance filmed to do the latter. | |
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SSSS.GRIDMAN and its sequel SSSS.DYNɅZENON are a rare example of a show deliberately invoking this trope without actually using it. The shows are sequels to a live-action tokusatsu show, and as such all of the kaiju in both shows are designed and animated such that while no motion capture is actually used, they could be turned into costumes and worn by suit actors. This also applies to the titular heroes of both shows, who actually do have live-action costumes for use at concerts and stage events. | |
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The Devil May Cry series makes extensive use of motion-capture, and is also notable for featuring two Power Rangers veterans to provide voice-work and mocap for two key characters: Vergil (Dan Southworth, the Quantum Ranger) and Nero (Johnny Yong Bosch, the second Black Ranger). | |
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Many of the Martians in John Carter (such as the ones played by Willem Dafoe and Samantha Morton) are this. | |
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Toy Story 3 had some motion capture for the final scene where Buzz and Jessie dance together. | |
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011) movies are full of this, directed by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. And Andy Serkis even plays Captain Haddock, making it a literal example. | |
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Several of Zod's soldiers in Man of Steel were CG creations, especially an 8-foot enforcer Superman had to fight in Smallville. | |
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Some of the ghosts in the Ghostbusters series are animated this way. | |
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The security droids in Elysium. | |
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While The Force Awakens largely returns to on-set practical effects, two notable characters are performance-captured: Andy Serkis himself as Supreme Leader Snoke and Lupita Nyong'o as Maz Kanata. Both characters are too out-of-scale to be portrayed by on-set actors; Snoke's physical proportions are vastly unusual to the point where he couldn't be created practically, while Maz is about the size of Yoda. | |
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Cats is full of this, but done without Motion Capture - the director did not want the actors to be restricted by their costumes (it is a show with a lot of dancing), so the effects artists had to do rotoscoping of humanoid cat bodies onto the filmed performances. | |
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Nope: Gordy, the chimpanzee star of the sitcom that Ricky starred in as a child, is played by a human in motion capture. Given the film's themes on the exploitation of animals for entertainment and how an animal can never truly be tamed, it ends up tying into it quite well in a meta sense. | |
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In The Jungle Book (2016), most of the characters aside from Mowgli, are rendered at least partially as a Serkis Person, especially Christopher Walken as King Louie and Bill Murray as Baloo. However, Kaa, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, is not, to avoid the Unintentional Uncanny Valley. | |
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The Incredible Hulk in both movies (in the first one, director Ang Lee himself provided the motion capture), and also in The Avengers, with motion capture provided by Banner's actor Mark Ruffalo. | |
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Guitar Hero. | |
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Also in Justice League (2017), the main villain of Steppenwolf was created this way, with the performance coming from Ciarán Hinds. | |
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The penguins from Happy Feet, obviously. Mumbles' dance moves were provided by Savion Glover, the lead dancer/choreographer for Broadway's ''Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk". | |
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Doomsday in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was actually voiced and performance captured by Robin Atkin Downes. | |
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Several Tony Hawks games have made use of motion-capture. | |
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Colossus is entirely CG in the Deadpool (2016) movie, which allows for a much more comic-accurate appearance than he had in the previous films in the X-Men Film Series (where he was played by a real actor until he armored up, Colossus here was always armored). Lampshaded in the opening credits, where he's billed as "A CGI character." The sequel adds the Juggernaut, another computer-generated character who looks more like his comic counterpart than he did in his last movie appearance. | |
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Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo from the 2002 live-action movie. | |
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For certain pivotal scenes in Godzilla (2014), Gareth Edwards had Andy Serkis himself hired to control the motions of Godzilla. | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV, while Grand Theft Auto V was made entirely using motion capture, at least for humans. | |
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This was done in Virtua Cop 3 with all of the characters being rendered by Japanese motion capture actors. | |
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As opposed to the original films' usage of animatronics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) uses Motion Capture for the turtles, as well as Splinter and the Shredder's Powered Armor. The turtle’s Mocap suits even had "shells" that looked like couch cushions stuck to the back. | |
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After being blown up, half of Gus' face from Breaking Bad is reduced to charred flesh and skull. The facial damage was done with CGI mocap; his actor wore a much less detailed version of the damage as makeup during the shot. | |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League has a new (and much improved) model for Steppenwolf, and also includes Darkseid (performed by Ray Porter) and DeSaad (Peter Guinness). | |
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The Electric Company featured some Scanimate material in its first season, mostly as short bumpers. That first season also saw the use of Aniform puppets, a gimmick used on different TV shows in the era as well, in which a specially-designed puppet would be performed, then go through video processing to look like animation. | |
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The titular character of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was both voiced and motion captured by Melina Juergens, who prior to that point was a video editor for developer Ninja Theory - this was her first ever acting role. | |
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