Aidan Quinn, Dark Matter

At 49, Aidan Quinn has gone from being the next Richard Gere to an established star in his own right of stage (the recent Richard Nelson's drama Conversations in Tusculum), TV (the current Canterbury's Law with Julianne Margulies) and movies, like the fact-inspired Dark Matter opposite Meryl Streep and directed by Shi-Zheng Chen which recreates the murder of a physics professor by his brilliant Chinese exchange student. Quinn discusses staying alive in a business not known for that, his earliest features and why Streep reunited with him for Dark Matter after Music of the Heart.

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