Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
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That I wasn't Indiana Jones.
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People who have ghosted me for my politics.
My A-level results in 1998. I flunked my history A-level and lost my place at Cambridge. It broke my heart for years; now I’m really glad, because I pull out the whole “I went to a polytechnic” thing. But at the time for a teenager who was rather pleased with herself, it was absolutely devastating.
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Not being able to take up my place at Rada.
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Scuba diving in Costa Rica. My stunt double and I were trying out some equipment that let us talk to each other and I ran out of air at 80ft - probably because I talked too much. I had to use his air. Then we were surrounded by sharks. It was scary.
Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.
My father, because he's a positive man with an enormous amount of compassion. My mother passed away four days ago.
Singing on the Berlin Wall to a million people in 1989.
When I was doing Knight Rider.
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