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I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.
A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
Needless aggression and bullying.
Not having come from a class that understands how the world works.
If I was 40 again.
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