"The forest is long gone. It flew away with the crows. All that’s left is ice."
An actor and an actress discuss love and life while on set for a film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure", then tragedy strikes.
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Ricardo Guevara
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Patrick Taft
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