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You would not be familiar with the leading man in the acclaimed indie comedy The Peanut Butter Falcon, now showing in cinemas.
Listen up, because he is an actor more interesting than his big-name co-stars Shia LaBeouf, hero of the Transformers blockbuster franchise (2009 to 2011), and Dakota Johnson of Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015) infamy.
