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“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”
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View all 122 →People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
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Comforting, uplifting, all consuming.
Frequently, especially now with what’s happening in the Middle East.
To still be working.
My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.
I’m getting closer all the time.
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