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Idris Elba

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Age

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Idris Elba is saying that as he gets older, he becomes more aware of the physical changes in his body. This awareness makes it difficult for him to see himself as attractive or desirable in the way society often expects a sex symbol to be.

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