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I’ve been lucky enough to act for 35 years. The only other job I had was as a cook at a drive-in restaurant, and I enjoyed that as well.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2017 source ↗
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Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
A shoot with a showbusiness icon who I’d loved all my life and shall remain nameless. She walked into the room and immediately said she hated everything. Things went downhill from there. Rough day.
Peter Capaldi
Actor and director
I have been pretty terrible in quite a lot of terrible things.
Emma Bunton
British singer
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
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