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The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
Nothing at all.
I cry all the time in front of the telly. I was doing Gogglebox with Julian Clary recently and I cried watching The Piano.
My first wife, because I left her.
When they don’t tell the truth.
Not playing James Bond.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
Gemma Chan, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, John Simm, Kerry Godliman, Bobbi Brown, Jo Nesbø
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