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October 20, 2003 — Tim Robbins says he relied on his memories of his childhood growing up in New York to inform his character in his latest movie, Mystic River.

"We'd play hockey in the streets after school. Working class families," Robbins said in an article for Sunday's edition of Newsday.

Robbins plays Dave Boyle, who was abducted and sexually abused as a boy. No one ever talked about it afterward.

In Dennis Lehane's book, which inspired the movie, Robbins said there's a great scene "about Dave's mother and father pretending that nothing ever happened -- as if by pretending it didn't happen it would all go away."

Said Robbins: "And it says something about being a man, too, and working class, that you don't admit emotion. You don't cry. You can't be beaten. And it's such a strong ethic in those kinds of neighborhoods."

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