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Ellar Coltrane

Ellar Coltrane

American actor

Aug 27, 2026

15:04
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15:06
What, um, what I'm really stricken by right now, and watching it right now, is, like, when it came out and when we were first watching it 12 years ago and talking about it and doing these things, like, s- a big talking point and something I was thinking about and talking about a lot is that this film expresses how beautiful the mundane is and that it's, like, this loving portrait of an unspectacular life.
15:33
But what I had afterwards on Instagram and on the internet was all of these teenagers from very different backgrounds, from other countries, from war-torn countries who didn't have a childhood like this.
15:51
Like, this wasn't, this isn't mundane.
15:53
This is spectacular.
15:55
The privilege and the luxury of getting to spend 12 years, like, wondering who you are-
16:04
[laughs]
16:04
... [laughs] That is spectacular, and it is a, a privilege.

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