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Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
Realising I was never going to achieve the grades to become a vet.
My mother. Any child of a single parent, if they are in a relationship when they become a parent, thinks, “How the hell did you do it alone?”
I inadvertently rubbed the milky residue of a toxic cactus plant into my eye while filming Women In Love in the desert in Namibia, and my body went into anaphylactic shock as the producer sped me to a clinic 50 miles away.
As the father of Celtic’s all-time top goalscorer (that’s either of my kids).
That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
Finding your place.
It’s a toss-up between organising a new filing system at Hammersmith & Fulham social services and relying on tips in the least popular restaurant in London to get through drama school.
Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson, Adrian Scarborough, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough
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