alfred molina · actor · versatile · british american · mature charm · intellectual · warm · movie star · expressive eyes · global cinema
The familiar aroma of pipe tobacco and worn leather-bound volumes saturated the quiet air, a world apart from the cloying sweetness of a conventional childhood. In this house, a perpetual stream of varied accents and annotated scripts generated a low, creative buzz. For the five-year-old, bedtime tales were delivered with full theatrical flourish, while supper frequently became fish fingers in a nondescript hotel room, a necessity of his father's relentless filming calendar. It was an existence rendered in bold, disordered, magnificent strokes.