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TIL John Malkovich named his film company after a Thai man (storied to be a convicted murderer) who was his driver during the filming of The Killing Fields. “Mr. Mudd” would run of bicyclists and old women off the road, and say: ‘Sometime Mr. Mudd kill. Sometime Mr. Mudd not kill.’

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