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“We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling…” quote by Anna Boden — Download Open image

“We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling in 'A Place Beyond the Pines,' and that's the first place where we'd seen him. And we're embarrassed to say that we didn't know that he was a famous Australian actor at the time that we saw it.”

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