Not being in pain – I have back problems and had shoulder surgery just before Christmas and there isn’t a day that goes by when I am not in pain.
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I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
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Anonymity. I am not being ungrateful, and I love meeting people, but being six foot four, with big teeth and a beard – there’s no hiding.
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Having my family closer.
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John Boyega’s vital organs. If I couldn’t have them all, then just his heart.
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Unemployment – I’m an actor.
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