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In the Broadway production of “Red,” Alfred Molina transforms himself into the abstract painter Mark Rothko. Molina told Kurt, “Someone said to me the other day, ‘Your Rothko is so unlikeable.’ And I remember thinking, well, great. That means I’m not pandering.”

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