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There was a period when I did four or five terrible films. My agent said: “Don’t do them.” But it was my month’s rent for a day’s work. One time, my green room was a lorry. It started snowing and it was just me and a plastic chair in the back of an open lorry. It was pretty grim.
A shoot with a showbusiness icon who I’d loved all my life and shall remain nameless. She walked into the room and immediately said she hated everything. Things went downhill from there. Rough day.
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.
Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
Thinking about work because I’m responsible for people’s jobs.
Procrastination.
When I first started at The Connaught, I bought a pair of antique diamond earrings at Fred Leighton in New York.
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