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Watching the Olympics.
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Craig David
British singer
Watching the 2015 movie Aloha.
Paul O'Grady
British comedian, actor and television presenter
When I watched a series called Pose. The hospital scenes took me right back to when we were going through the Aids years. It’s the same with It’s a Sin.
Alison Steadman
British actress
When I read about the abuse of Baby P.
Courteney Cox
American actress and producer
Yesterday, when I heard songs that Johnny has been writing.
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When I was 19 I worked at a gay bar while I was at drama school in London. One of the guys I worked with was Glaswegian and I learned the dialect from him. The acting teacher at the school said, “Liev, you’ve got the region but you’ve missed the character entirely” because I played Jimmy Boyle in a very camp Glaswegian accent.
A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.
Acting – it’s also the best, though.
An elevator operator.
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