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The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗
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.
Telesales. I refused to wear a tie, but my argument that “They can’t see what we’re wearing” didn’t wash with the manager and I lasted a week.
A shoot with a showbusiness icon who I’d loved all my life and shall remain nameless. She walked into the room and immediately said she hated everything. Things went downhill from there. Rough day.
I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.
Through rose-tinted spectacles.
Ultimately, a bigger hallway.
Go back to where you came from.
People who abuse their power to subjugate others.
As little rubbish to sort through as possible.
Wearing 90s ripped-at-the-crotch jeans at Rada during an unarmed combat session and showing everyone more than they bargained for.
Cybill Shepherd, Rick Astley, Tom Allen, Archie Panjabi, Martin Freeman, Ann Patchett
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