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On the Freedom Rides in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a state trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die.
In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.
Always flying: we’ve had flights where the engine’s been on fire; where we’ve nose-dived.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
Being the father of three children.
Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
23 June last year. The fact that certain people have chosen for us to come out of Europe is one of the saddest, divisive and unthought-through events in my lifetime.
When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.
Strength, comfort, joy and passion.
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