"It was my choice, because I was being offered such crappy stuff. I was only offered gang movies on a way lesser scale and it was like the same fucking battle again. I couldnāt believe it. And it broke my heart. It. Absolutely. Broke. My. Heart. I thought: āIāll wait for something better,ā and something better kept not coming. It was horrific."
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