This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
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View all 122 →“You’ll never, ever work.” When you are young and full of hopes and dreams it’s devastating. I am just grateful that I thought: “Well, I’m going to try.”
I had a casting director once stop me in the middle of an audition and tell me to go wash my face in the bathroom because she felt my makeup was too distracting, but I wasn’t wearing any. It was mortifying. It felt like a power play and I was so young, I didn’t know what to do.
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That I wouldn’t be successful. Joke’s on them, I guess.
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Mum, because I never really knew how to cope with her alcoholism.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
Brave, naughty, diligent.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
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