Nicolas Cage
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And without mentioning names, I recalled a newspaper article I read about a little boy who was at the zoo.
And he fell into a...
well, a cage or an environment of wild painted dogs, the African painted dogs, and they ate the child alive.
And I remember getting very upset about it, that how could something like that happen?
And so in that scene, I was upset that this child that I was sort of mentoring or guiding
was the victim of domestic abuse and of his sister was potentially going to be abducted for other disturbing and horrible things, atrocities.
And so I went and looked at that current event at that time, and then it got me there.
So that would be an example.
So that's a really perfect question.
And if I wake up in the morning...
to use a cliche, on the wrong side of the bed.
And I have to be funny, funny, funny, and happy, happy, happy, and dance, dance, dance, and this and this, bright and sparkling and poppy.
That is more difficult.
That is much more challenging.
Well, how do you get there?
You become a specialist in compartmentalizing.
Okay, that, I'm not going to think about what was said to me an hour ago.
I am going to shut that off and act from the spinal cord and be happy and turn it on.
And that's not easy.
I think it was on Peggy Sue Got Married, which everyone knows was a movie that I did not really want to partake in.