“I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.”

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He is saying that seeing the film made attending prep school seem attractive to him. The quote presents the movie as influential enough that it affected a real education choice.

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Originally said in English.

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About Michael Pena

American actor

Michael Peña is an American actor known for a long film career that includes roles in Crash, World Trade Center, Shooter, Observe and Report, Tower Heist, Battle: Los Angeles, End of Watch, and Gangster Squad. He also appeared in American Hustle, The Martian, Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Extinction. On television, he played DEA agent Kiki Camarena in Narcos: Mexico and CIA agent Domingo Chavez in Jack Ryan, and he had the title role in Cesar Chavez. He also starred in A Million Miles Away.

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