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There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗
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Robert Peston
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Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
Sofia Helin
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Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.
James Norton
English actor
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.
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