‘We are bound together, you and I, by this business. I feel that I cannot get Mr Hyde out of my skin—he has been awakened and lives inside me now—and I fear that with each day that passes, and each performance I give, his influence grows. Do you think that’s possible?’ His head came up like a jack-in-the-box, his eyes, still lined with a bit of mascara, wide. ‘I think a bit of Mr Hyde lives in everyone, and that’s why the story resonates as it does.’ ‘But is it a kind of corruption, a force that, once unleashed, goes unchecked?’ ‘That is why we have willpower. To control the impulses and
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