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Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'

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• Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Hurt
  • Boy