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Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.
When I was 13, I was on a bicycle and got hit by a taxi in New York.
I choked on a hard-boiled lemon sweet when I was 13. My brother Sam saved me.
I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
In Brooklyn, I was a dishwasher in a sandwich shop.
A snazzy coffee machine that grinds beans and steams milk.
At boarding school, I was unable to get the main part in Hamlet, so I put on a production of The Homecoming with my friends. The teachers came to see it and said they didn’t know I had it in me. It felt very good.
After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
My mum, because she smuggled me into the National Youth Theatre during summer time when my dad didn’t want me to be an actor, and she’s seen everything I’ve done.
Joanne Froggatt, Lance Black, Michael Flatley, Rose McGowan, Lesley Sharp, Liev Schreiber
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