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He’s one of the NFL’s most talented wide receivers, among its most outspoken, and quite possibly the sport’s most stylish player too. Now, on his third team, he’s looking to finally reach football’s promised land.

Thirty-five years after playing the Ghost With the Most made him into an A-list star (and, soon after, a superhero), the legendary screen eccentric whom Jenna Ortega calls “strangely normal” returns to old haunts in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and tells GQ what he’s learned from surviving decades in a fickle business: “You can get insecure and nervous, and go, ‘Wow, boy, I'm not doing so great right now.’ But when you get desperate, you're dead.”

The Pacers point guard transformed himself from unheralded prospect to full-fledged NBA superstar—and, hopefully, Olympic gold medalist. If you doubt him, all the better. “That's the fun part: it's just another chip on my shoulder.”

The Crown star turned newly-minted Marvel antagonist shakes off the shackles of period drama to take on an all-new challenge: Going toe to toe with mighty mutants Deadpool and Wolverine in the film that could save (or sink) the MCU onscreen. No pressure.