The question
When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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I was doing a photoshoot right after an awards show and I was talking about someone whose makeup I really didn’t like. I said: “She’s gorgeous, I don’t understand how a makeup artist could encourage that?” And the makeup artist on the photoshoot said: “I did her makeup.”
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗
When you jump out of addiction and look back, things like drink-driving and sitting in crack houses are not good.
When my trousers split on stage in Burn the Floor in Australia. I had always been warned to wear my flesh underwear and I did not that day.
When I was a teenager, I laughed at a joke I didn’t understand. Whoever told the joke turned to me and said, “What are you laughing at?” Of course I didn’t know and he obviously knew I didn’t know. It was excruciating.
I was in Kensington Gardens and this couple stopped me and said: “Hey, could we get a picture? I said: “Sure.” I put my arms around their shoulders, and they looked at me and said: “No, can you take a picture of us?”
Like waves of warm water rippling on to the shores of your heart.
I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
Having breast cancer.
Anything and everything.
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
That you’re stronger than you think you are.
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