I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
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When I was 21 or so, and I started to grow my hair - this was maybe two years before 'Wayne's World' - they were like 'What are you doing ... You're such the all-American guy.' But I would go in and read for these parts, and it never excited me to play the guy who doesn't have any sort of point of view and edge,Lee Tergesen
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