My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Having fun with my sisters back in the day. I miss playing cards and fighting over crabs with them every weekend.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2020 source ↗
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When Molde won the Norwegian premier league in 2011, the year the club was 100 years old.
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