A snazzy coffee machine that grinds beans and steams milk.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 May 2018 source ↗
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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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A snazzy coffee machine that grinds beans and steams milk.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 May 2018 source ↗
A caravan. I was brought up going on caravan holidays – but we quickly realised that a double-axle caravan was too much of a commitment and sold it.
A Rolex, after London 2012.
A garden chair from the Chelsea flower show. It was almost the price of a small crappy car.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
My mum, because she smuggled me into the National Youth Theatre during summer time when my dad didn’t want me to be an actor, and she’s seen everything I’ve done.
After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
I fell off a ladder, landed on my back, got up and was fine.
In Brooklyn, I was a dishwasher in a sandwich shop.
At boarding school, I was unable to get the main part in Hamlet, so I put on a production of The Homecoming with my friends. The teachers came to see it and said they didn’t know I had it in me. It felt very good.
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