Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
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Paula Wilcox
b. 1950
Arts and letters
About
Born in Manchester, Paula Wilcox, 76, moved to London aged 17 to join the National Youth Theatre and was cast in Jack Rosenthal’s 1970 television sitcom The Lovers, which ran for two series and became a film. She also appeared in The Liver Birds, Man About the House and Miss Jones and Son, and she played two characters in Coronation Street. On stage she starred in Shirley Valentine, Great Expectations and Canary. Her recent TV work includes Trying, The Cleaner, Avoidance and Channel 5’s new drama The Fortune. She is married and lives in London.
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I’m very impatient – next question.
Complaining about the weather, because there’s nothing you can do about it. There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Impatient, funny, worrier.
Not to be able to do the things that you take for granted, like running up the tube steps or going somewhere under your own steam.
We’ve run out of champagne.
I cry a lot at films; my mother and I were champion criers at Meet Me in St Louis.
I’m trying to write my will and I keep changing my mind.
A driver or a helicopter.
Anything, because I’m a worrier. Also, if I’m working on a really exciting project, I can be awake like an excited child looking forward to going on holiday.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a job that I hate. I worked as a temp briefly when I was out of work and it was fun.
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