Watching the Festival of Remembrance last autumn.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
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I cry every day. Sometimes out of frustration. I do grieve my mum, so I allow the grief to sit until it’s not there any more.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
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Liev Schreiber
American actor
Watching the Olympics.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2024 source ↗
Brendan Gleeson
Irish actor and director
Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2016 source ↗
Charlotte Rampling
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I cry a lot, every day.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2022 source ↗
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I tried my best.
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In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
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