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With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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When I was shooting The Player – I was in love with life and fulfilled by my creative experience.
Getting my full Equity card as a professional performer.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
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Leaving the hospital.
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Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
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