Panic and euphoria.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗
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Panic and euphoria.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗
As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.
Like being three and dancing, giddy with joy.
Comfort, warmth and security.
Finding your place.
I wanted to be in the circus.
The worms get to feast.
I lived in Cape Town, and I was spotted on the street and signed up by a modelling agency. I did about three shoots before I realised I hate having my photograph taken and I like food.
The very first day that I was filming Top Gear, for which I was so unqualified because I’d only ever driven a Fiat Uno. I got into a DB7 Vantage Volante outside the Aston Martin factory, put my foot on the accelerator and bunny-hopped across the gravel because I’d forgotten to take the handbrake off.
The first time I stood on top of the hill that I now live on, in 2007.
My husband, Ludo, for not really getting why war movies are fun to watch.
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