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The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 October 2023 source ↗
In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.
Washing dishes when I was a student.
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
A really bad film for no money: the director had no idea what he was doing and I was wondering: why am I here?
Mostly the pain. I don’t want to be trapped in a body that hurts.
As someone who left the world slightly more interesting than he found it.
The idiocy of going to Skye from New Zealand in April 2020. All of a sudden, I’m turning on the news and hearing myself as an item. I have never been more mortified.
I’ve never read Proust.
I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
My kids, and getting some of the stories I had in my head on to paper in a way that wasn’t too far removed from the thing I dreamed about writing.
Jack Whitehall, Adam Kay, Jo Nesbø, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sara Pascoe, Paterson Joseph
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