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Residents of the towers who were away when the fire started recounted the horrors of learning that their family members may have been trapped inside the buildings.

Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”

"I still cannot forget the horrors of those days," he says, voice choking with emotion.

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His past work also includes featuring in the 2022 BBC horror series Red Rose, and he later made his West End debut in Aaron Sorkin's adaption of To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Torres wiped his hands over his face as if washing off the horrors of the day and pressed the record button.

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