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This reads as a joke with a point, saying that if repetition is going to define an actor, then a dignified, historically admired role is the best kind of label to carry. It can be taken to mean that being boxed in is not always humiliation, especially when the box suggests seriousness and stature. It lands when someone is tired of being stuck in one image but can still laugh at the shape of that image.
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Originally said in English.
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