The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗
Not being in Black Panther.
Not becoming chancellor.
To go out of Strictly Come Dancing as early as I did.
I started playing football too old.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
As a complex and brilliant man.
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