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"My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely."
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Björn Andrésen
Björn Johan Andrésen was a Swedish actor and musician. He was best known for having played the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice.
"My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely."
"I was just sixteen and Visconti and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew were gay. The waiters at the club made me feel very uncomfortable. They looked at me uncompromisingly as if I was a nice meaty dish. I knew I couldnt react. It would have been social suicide. But it was the first of many such encounters."