Actor Oliver Platt treats cancer with humor

 
By FRAZIER MOORE
Published: June 27, 2011

NEW YORK — For much of last season on Showtime 's “ The Big C ,” Oliver Platt played a husband with no clue his wife had been diagnosed with life-threatening cancer.

It was hard playing those scenes “in the dark,” he says. “You had to really focus and forget that you knew.” But how? “Well, you just do it. It's your job. You pretend.”

Platt is pretty good at that.

But as this dar...


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