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Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

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It’s paying homage, very much, to that.
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There’s always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel.
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Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.
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