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When were you most embarrassed?

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Sarah Hadland
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Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗

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Eleanor Tomlinson English actress
I’ve never seen Star Wars (I know!) and on my first day of a recent job, I’m sitting next to this very friendly actor. I ask if he has much experience with motion capture. He says, “Yes.” I say “Oh great! What have you worked on?” He says, “I’m Mark Hamill.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2024 source ↗
Corinne Bailey Rae
I remember being a teenager and writing this romantic short story in the style of the Brontës on a computer and I didn’t realise that the person whose computer it was could just print it out. A group of boys had a couple of pages and they were all reading it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

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