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HIS PARENTS, ACTOR Bill Pullman and modern dancer Tamara Hurwitz Pullman, met doing theater in college. Lewis, a former drummer, is the youngest of three musically inclined siblings. “None of us can do our taxes worth shit, but we can put on a nice, decent performance.”
THOUGH HIS PARENTS were performers, they didn’t let Pullman watch TV. “You’d get to school and everyone would talk about last night’s Simpsons, and you’d feel like an alien.”
SET VISITS WERE few and far between. “Pop thought it was a bizarre world to be immersed in at a young age. I remember Igby Goes Down, and he didn’t realize he was shooting a mental breakdown scene in a shower that day. We got there and basically did a U-turn. I was mainly obsessed with craft service.”
This story is from the September 2023 edition of Vanity Fair US.
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