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    WILLIAM HURT

    Apr 01, 2022 2 minutes
    NEIL SMITH

    ame sat uneasily on the shoulders of William McChord Hurt, a softly spoken, rangy and hawk-like performer who once described himself as “an actor caught in a movie star’s body”. A Juilliard graduate who cut his teeth on the New York stage, he was knocking on 30. Yet such was the impact of Ken Russell’s psychedelic brain-bender that ‘Bill’ soon found himself among Hollywood’s most wanted leading men: a mantle he found difficult to reconcile with his discomfort in the spotlight, restless curiosity and distaste for showbiz flim-flam.

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