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Not playing Freddie Mercury.
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Shirley MacLaine
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The reviews of my latest film.
Jimmy Savile
English media personality and sex offender
Never having been a 100% sex symbol. I only managed 99.9%.
When a relationship I’ve been invested in stops working. And yet, here I am, happy as you like.
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
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Just remembered will do.
Clive Stafford Smith, for his incredible work with the Reprieve charity.
To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
I used to clean the ovens in a bakery. Brillo pad and poison.
A librarian. Or a racing driver for Ferrari F1.
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