Martin Freeman
English actor
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.
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Rose McGowan
American actress and activist
When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.
David Arquette
American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler
When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.
Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist
Laying down slabs for the council.
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View profile →The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
As a complex and brilliant man.
My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
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