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Molly
In the following months, Grant seemed to have a renewed passion for life. He was eventually moved from his dismal hospital room to a slightly less depressing room at a rehabilitation facility. He worked so hard during physical therapy to build his upper body strength; he seemed to have limitless energy when it came to reconditioning his body.
When I asked him about it, he merely said, “I can do anything when I’m preparing for a role. I once lost fifty pounds to play a dying man.”
I remembered that particular movie. I’d sobbed for days after watching my favorite actor wither away to almost nothing as the cancer ravaged his body. Even though I knew that it was merely a part he was playing, it had been remarkably believable. In fact, I felt that he’d been robbed of the Academy Aw
