Kwame Kwei-Armah
Actor and playwright
Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
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That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
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Meanness and lying.
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