My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Simon Russell Beale
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The morning after the opening of Hamlet in New York in 2000. The reviews were good and I actually punched the air – a very un-Simon Russell Beale thing to do.
Simon Le Bon
English singer
I was very happy to be alive when I surfaced after my yacht, Drum, capsized in the Fastnet Race in 1985. I was in an air pocket for 40 minutes, and had to take off my long johns to be able to surface.
When I was naive to the complexities of life.
Nicholas Hoult
English actor
Relaxing with family and friends.
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