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In a 2009 interview with the Guardian, he described his younger self as “a total hellion” and said he was “very dysfunctional at school.”

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Like a patient dad, McCarthy is trying to calm the little hellions, but it is unclear what he can do to make them happy.

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As we’re about to learn, David is more than a heel, he’s a hellion, and what begins as the story of a stalking skids rapidly into depravity and humiliation.

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“There could have been no more perfect beginning to L.Q. Jones’s career in the movies. The word that best sums up his overriding screen persona is hellion.”

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“They literally raised three girls to be absolute hellions. And we didn’t know and I literally didn’t know that wasn’t possible.”

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