A personal assistant.
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Endless acting jobs.
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Leading with joy.
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Maybe Kate Moss.
Not having my injuries: shoulders, knees and ankles. I did a lot of contact sports as a kid.
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The fact that there are not enough hours in the day and I’ve taken on too much.
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
Lee Warburton. He had just left drama school and was doing the Alexander technique in the Corrie green room. I hadn’t been to drama school, and really took the piss out of him.
Catastrophising.
During the first week or two of lockdown. We didn’t know what was coming and it didn’t feel dangerous at that point; there was just a real sense of family and hunkering down.
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