Last thing i heard was he’s Polish…

  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Once upon a time in Yugoslavia, a boy was born. Blessed with a voice and a mind, he fled The Troubles and went to America, reinventing himself under a new identity. The past was dead, never to be spoken of again. But the boy grew up and cryptically refused to give any indication that he even had a past prior to his American-self reinvention. Especially because to admit any true details about the past also involves admitting to details of the art heist that built his fortune. The End.

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      1 year ago

      My honest guess would be the Balkans. He probably fled the area after the unrest and either doing horrible things (I hope not) or suffering horrible things. A fair number of people that survive and escape war zones never want to revisit that trauma and keep it quiet. I think this theory is also supported by his hedonistic attitude - just press forward and do shit, don’t care what others think because it’s a miracle you’re still alive.

      I assume some immigration officer knows the truth and confirmed he wasn’t a war criminal, so if he wants to keep his past private, I’m totally fine with that.

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        This is my pet theory. If I remember correctly from The Disaster Artist, Tommy talked about escaping horrible things or something akin to that.