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Wall. What do you do if you’re on set, and we agreed to play these roles and never break character but you do? Or I do, and you forget there are people watching?

I’m in another movie this time. Low light, noir, smokey, cold. All this happened so long ago, all of this agreed upon so long ago, and when you arrived, Wall, you still gave me the look. Yes, that look- the endearing look of someone who wants to remind you that he’s just playing a character, and he’s also giving you the look that look to give you a step ahead. There’s no clapperboard in real life, but your look is one. And now our story together begins.

My lovely fool, you think I’m acting. Sure, it’s Hollywood. But I’ve been in many films of many languages. When you think I’m breaking character, Wall, you laugh a little. I’m a method actor, and then another one inside of it- the snake eating the snake, the eight-turn horizontal infinity. So when it seems like the scene was tense and you couldn’t find the actor in my gaze, turn around- or actually wait for an extra to hand you a mirror.

This movie was named after you.

This part is acting too.