I’ve done some acting jobs where everybody’s gone out of their way to make sure that you feel annoying and easily replaceable.
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Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
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There was a period when I did four or five terrible films. My agent said: “Don’t do them.” But it was my month’s rent for a day’s work. One time, my green room was a lorry. It started snowing and it was just me and a plastic chair in the back of an open lorry. It was pretty grim.
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Getting a house. I didn’t think that was a possibility for me. I’ve been able to do amazing things – Netflix, tours, winning a Bafta – but having something you own is hard, so that’s really up there.
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
Not investing in bitcoin.
Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
I always relate love to happiness.
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