00:01We know how things started.
00:03He answered one of your fan letters.
00:05And then an unlikely correspondence began, et cetera, et cetera.
00:09Why don't you just back it all the way up to how things started with you and John F. Donovan?
00:14I had just turned 11.
00:15Kids at school were mocking me to being a new guy.
00:18Rupert!
00:19Sorry.
00:20My mom and I, we were barely speaking anymore.
00:22All my dreams had disappeared.
00:24The only one that had survived was John.
00:28We'll get photo approval, right boy?
00:30Yeah, and you're getting a pony for Christmas.
00:32He, on the other hand, had everything.
00:35Fans.
00:37Fame.
00:39Love.
00:40I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
00:42That's the time around which some people started to wonder.
00:45Was it all a lie?
00:48I read a letter to John F. Donovan about five years ago.
00:51It was rather foolish for me to think he would answer, but he did.
00:55I'm only 11 years old, but later I'll be like him.
00:58And we'll act in movies together.
01:00Rippet, you made up that story.
01:02I didn't!
01:03You lied, and you lied for years.
01:05I just didn't say anything!
01:07Did you, or did you not, write letters to that kid?
01:10Do you have a pen pal?
01:12Child pen pal.
01:14Do your job.
01:15Next.
01:18You are never to write to that man again.
01:21Do you understand?
01:23So why release the letters now?
01:25It's been 12 years, and frankly, have things really changed?
01:29This is about us, as a society, what we want, what we seek.
01:33I mean, what should an artist reveal of himself?
01:36And why does it matter to us?
01:40I feel like I've done everything wrong.
01:44What if I don't belong here?
01:47What if I've stolen someone else's place?
01:52The question is, how could you have stolen a place that was made just for you?
01:59Ma, can I stay here tonight?
02:01You can stay here for the rest of your life.
02:21Dear Rupert,
02:24I cannot think of a more singular friend.
02:28No one will understand this friendship
02:34Until the day you want them to.
02:36You can stay here for the rest of your life.
02:46You can stay here for the rest of your life.
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