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The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
In 2012 I stared into the eyes of someone who had just stabbed a man in the neck on the street. I was trying to help the victim; for a very long three or four seconds, I thought he was going to come for me next.
Scuba diving in Costa Rica. My stunt double and I were trying out some equipment that let us talk to each other and I ran out of air at 80ft - probably because I talked too much. I had to use his air. Then we were surrounded by sharks. It was scary.
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.
When I was a kid in Tooting, our house caught fire. We didn’t realise until the fire brigade turned up.
In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
Curious, kind and frustrating – because I ask too many questions.
I cry every day. Sometimes out of frustration. I do grieve my mum, so I allow the grief to sit until it’s not there any more.
I tried my best.
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
Ignorance and unwillingness to learn.
Winston Churchill, Kim Gordon, Paul Heaton, John Malkovich, Jonnie Peacock, Russell Mael
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