When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
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Martin Freeman
English actor
United Kingdom · b. 1971
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Born in Hampshire, Martin Freeman, 47, played Tim in The Office. He went on to appear in The Hobbit trilogy and Black Panther. Since 2010, he has played Dr Watson in Sherlock. As part of the Pinter at the Pinter season, he stars in A Slight Ache and The Dumb Waiter from 31 January to 23 February. He lives in London and has two children with his former partner, the actor Amanda Abbington.
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I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
“I don’t love you.”
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
I say it a lot to my kids when I’ve lost my temper, and I’ll save up a big one for when they are 18.
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
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