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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 source ↗
My wife. I made mistakes in my early life and hurt her. Everybody thinks the grass is greener, but it’s not. To say sorry to her when she understands will be one of the greatest gifts God has given me.
I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.
I collect old costumes: I have one of Johnny Cash’s, and Liberace’s shoes.
David Bowie’s Life On Mars.
With time and experience you figure stuff out, so I am happiest right now.
When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.
I got stabbed in the neck with a light tube during a wrestling “death match” two years ago. It was scary. I thought I was dying: your life does flash before your eyes.
This morning: I lost a couple of friends recently and it’s been tough.
Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen, Alice Eve, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough, Angela Griffin
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