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Tom Courtenay Might Have Been a Star. He Selected to Be an Actor

Sir Tom Courtenay is 89 years outdated and telling a narrative concerning the day Alec Guinness confirmed him the script for a peculiar science fiction movie he wasn’t fairly positive about. “He seemed uncertain about it,” Courtenay remembers. “But there was something he could smell in it.” The movie, in fact, was Star Wars. It […]