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Audio Interview: Sarah Polley

Scott Myers

15 Jul 2012
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Sarah Polley is a unique talent: Actor, director, writer. You may remember her from The Sweet Hereafter and Go. Her latest venture is Take This Waltz. Here is a scene from that film:

http://static.movieclips.com/embedplayer.swf?shortid=RiBL

You can go here for an audio interview with Polley.

HT to @webacion for the link.

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