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Michael Rymer wasn’t familiar with Aaliyah before casting her in Queen of the Damned, but he didn’t need much convincing. “I flew to Vancouver from Toronto just for an overnight [stay] to have dinner with Aaliyah,” the director, 63, exclusively tells Us on the 25th anniversary of the “Try Again” singer’s tragic death. “I met her and her brother, Rashad [Haughton], and we went to their favorite little Italian joint ’round the corner and had a really nice dinner and talked about the books [The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, on which the 2002 horror film was based].” Rymer remembers…

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