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When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
I have a deep-rooted fear of being in trouble. I once tried to sneak into the back of a photography exhibition with my husband when one of our kids was in a pushchair. We’d arrived late and he suggested we go in through the gift shop and see the last room. As we poked our heads round the door, the security guard noticed us. I shouted, “That man’s trying to get in!”, then ran away.
When I was doing a masterclass at a theatre and I had to leave the stage because I was about to shit my pants.
I was in a restaurant with my daughter in Los Angeles and I had an accident involving a stomach upset. That was mortifying for both of us.
As a decent human being.
A forensic scientist.
I’ve never got through Ulysses.
Pain and loneliness.
Warm, intelligent, accommodating.
About five years ago, I was in a play that was an unmitigated disaster. I had to rally the troops and go out every night.
Fearne Cotton, Shaznay Lewis, Edmund Hillary, Pauline Black, Eleanor Tomlinson, Esther Freud
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