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Tony Hale Tackles Parental Angst and Sharing the Screen With Kids in Toronto Pic ‘Sketch’: ‘These Kids Just Had Such a Natural Gift’

Tony Hale Tackles Parental Angst and Sharing the Screen With Kids in Toronto Pic ‘Sketch’: ‘These Kids Just Had Such a Natural Gift’.

Tony Hale is speaking by phone about his new movie, “ Sketch,” a sales title at TIFF; on a Thursday in August, he’s days away from moving his 18-year-old daughter Loy into college for her freshman year. As Taylor, a widowed father, Hale must play grief and concern, even before the loopy monster art his daughter draws comes to life and terrorizes the town. In “Sketch,” Hale worked opposite actors Bianca Belle and Kue Lawrence, who played his children Amber and Jack; the notion of handing them sophisticated material could have been unnerving.

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