You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

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