The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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When I realised that I could get myself through anything that came my way.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
At each of my sons’ weddings.
Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
When I was seven. I remember it as a golden time, long gone.
Being an uncle brings me utter joy.
I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
A blood clot in my artery when I was 23.
My tendency to be avoidant.
I had a casting director once stop me in the middle of an audition and tell me to go wash my face in the bathroom because she felt my makeup was too distracting, but I wasn’t wearing any. It was mortifying. It felt like a power play and I was so young, I didn’t know what to do.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
Someone to clean my apartment.
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