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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Elsinore Director Simon Stone Thinks He Knows Why We Love Being Absolutely Gutted by Tearjerkers · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Elsinore is an upcoming movie getting tons of Oscar buzz.
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  Speaker 2: A true story about actor Ian Charlson, who fulfilled a
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  Speaker 2: lifelong dream to star on stage in Hamlet while battling
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  Speaker 2: a fatal illness. And this movie isn't just a tearjerker.
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  Speaker 2: Preview audiences are coming out of the theater bawling. It's
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  Speaker 2: a powerful story. And apparently the film is very, very good.
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  Speaker 2: But this one is an emotional ride.
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  Speaker 3: And it kind of begs the question, why do we
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  Speaker 3: willingly put ourselves through such a gut-wrenching experience? But I
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  Speaker 3: love what the movie's director, Simon Stone, had to say
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 2: In the film, Ian, played brilliantly by Andrew Scott, looks
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  Speaker 2: into the abyss, but still manages to find hope. And
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  Speaker 2: several moviegoers told Simon they cried their eyes out. But
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  Speaker 2: the next day, they all felt really good because it's cathartic.
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  Speaker 4: Simon compared it to a good session with your therapist
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  Speaker 4: while speaking with Variety that it's painful while you're in it,
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  Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, it leaves you
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  Speaker 4: with hope.
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  Speaker 3: Plus, in the movie and in real life, Ian faced
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  Speaker 3: his end willingly and with beauty, and that grace is
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  Speaker 3: extraordinary to witness, even if it leaves you bawling your
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  Speaker 3: eyes out.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. We've all burned through our fair share
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  Speaker 2: of Kleenex. Elsinore is in theaters this November.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.