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The “La La Land” and “The Notebook” star, who is a noted musician as well, then took a seat behind a large black piano and donned dark sunglasses for the broody satire.

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Stewart’s non-gender-conforming streak started to surface in her portrayal of broody heroine Bella Swan in the “Twilight” saga, which the actor said in a January interview with Variety had a “very Gothic, gay inclination.”

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Lucifer seemed likely to trounce broody hero Dream initially — until he asked, “What kills hope?”

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“He’s just this broody, emotionless science man, but every two or three episodes, something happens, and they just make him feel all the emotions.”

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Pregnant at 23, married not long after, she had endured 14 years of bossy, broody cantankerousness from a man to whom marriage was “a tourniquet I didn’t think we could live without.”

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