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The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 July 2025 source ↗
In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
A panic attack on stage during The Importance Of Being Earnest. Well, it felt like death.
I was invited to Sharon Tate’s house the night she was murdered. I declined the invite due to jetlag.
At university, I worked at a hotel in housekeeping. We saw so many weird things in people’s rooms. Guests would leave sex and party stuff behind!
The Great Gatsby.
Cancel culture: getting stuck on the discourse rather than looking at the system.
Everybody I’ve lost to suicide. When someone dies in that tragic way, you always feel you could have done more.
Passionate, loving, driven.
Gender-affirming surgery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not widely available on the NHS and a lot of it you have to pay for yourself.
Julian Clary, Sheryl Crow, Felicity Jones, Shaun Ryder, Nicola Walker, Gary Numan
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