We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

in a way [director Lynch's] behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character"). As an undergraduate he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and president of the U.

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