The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
For my dad not to have known our boys.
Politics. And casting directors.
Losing my singing voice. I had to have an operation and unfortunately it was not successful. I’ve not been able to sing since.
Not being part of the Transformers franchise.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
Terry O'Neill, Arlene Phillips, Pauline McLynn, Jake Shears, Adam Clayton, Tom Ellis
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