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From The Desk Of Soko: Robin Williams (Dad Figure)

SokoLogoFrench actress/chanteuse Soko just issued her lo-fi, Leonard-Cohen-cryptic, English-language debut, I Thought I Was An Alien (Community Music), She also delighted in the method-acting process she went though for Alice Winocour’s new docudrama Augustine. Soko will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on her.

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Soko: Hook is my favorite childhood movie. I lost my dad so early, somehow I made a transfer to Robin Williams because I though he kind of looks like my dad. So I became the biggest fan of most Robin Williams films because he always plays a great dad character. So, don’t judge, but Robin Williams is my dad substitute.

He made me want to fly and be young forever in Hook, and made me want to be a poet in Dead Poets Society. He made me want to have a weird dad who loves me unconditionally in Mrs. Doubtfire, and he made me like Popeye forever and want to eat spinach to be strong. He made me sing all the genie songs from Aladdin, and he made me want to see a therapist in Good Will Hunting. Man, Robin Williams taught me so much real shit about real life!

Video after the jump.