Booth wants to follow in Lincoln's footsteps. He even goes so far as to give himself a new moniker, Three-Card. But there's one problem. He's not Lincoln. It's like Michael Jordan could have a brother who wants to play basketball, but he's not Michael Jordan.

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I've never lived in the 'hood, I've never lived in squalor and I'm not black. But I have an older brother and I know what it's like to share a home with a brother, to share your clothes and sporting equipment, all the fights and disagreements you have as brothers. So that's the way I approached this play.

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