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" Hollywood is my domestic idyll. "
Rufus Sewell
Domestic
Hollywood
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" My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. "
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