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I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
I was on a plane in India and I thought it was going to crash. It was an old, rickety thing. It was pre-children - I wouldn't do it now.
The London terror attack on 7/7 in 2005. I was in London the day before for the Olympic bid. When we won I thought, “I should stay over – it will be a great party tonight.” But I decided to go back to Manchester for training. Bombs went off on what would have been my route to the station.
In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.
Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.
Pyramid Song, by Radiohead, live.
A stuntman. Evel Knievel was an icon.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
Joseph Fiennes, Helen George, Emily Mortimer, Rita Wilson, Joanne Froggatt, Meera Syal
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