“The pressure to wear baggy clothes and look like gangsters and listen to hip-hop is enormous. Where they live, it’s gangs everywhere. Sixty homicides, it’s dangerous to go to school.”
But that’s where Clark’s cast was, in high-school class, when he came alone to Toronto. “One of the kids said to me, ‘When you’re through with the film, will you still be around?’ I’m around. I’m taking everyone skating next Saturday.”
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