The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 May 2018 source ↗
When my bowels move freely and without complications.
In kindergarten, riding my bike and making objects out of clay.
My happiest moments are when I am wild camping with my family in Scotland and cooking on a fire by a river.
My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
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.
A snazzy coffee machine that grinds beans and steams milk.
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.
I fell off a ladder, landed on my back, got up and was fine.
In Brooklyn, I was a dishwasher in a sandwich shop.
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