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Casting
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interested in having dialogue and using more about the dialogue, whereas it seems to me the dialogue here is just functional. It's basically just helping to illustrate each separate stage of the marriage. And also the change in Kane. People will think what I tell them to think. Yeah. Welles lamented at one point when he was talking about an actor that he says, I'm the sort of actor who always gets cast as a king.
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It has to do with his bearing, his voice, his size. But he was fond of makeup as well, and was fond of the makeup in this film, and enjoyed getting older. Also, I mean, he was treated as a king while he was growing up. I mean, you know, it seems like that has a lot to do with... Well, that may be so, but I think as an actor type, if you're casting a play, he's a king type.
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