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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗
I was not great with my mother-in-law, who was a very gentle woman. I thought she would be an uninvited part of my life for ever, but she died early and I wished I had been more open and patient.
My parents, for my new show.
I didn't go to a retirement party once for someone who had been special to me and he died shortly after.
I’d like to say sorry to my mother. I had to choose between my parents, and I chose my father because he didn’t have any other kids. (My mother was a war widow and had two children from her first marriage.) I thought, in a childish way, that one had to be fair. It was very difficult for my mother and me, and we never really got over it.
I think you can be happy every day, if you are in the flow.
In my teens, peeling garlic to make pie filling in a butcher’s shop.
That I am not a chorus girl in a West End musical.
A spy, a witch and a nun.
Adam Clayton, Adam Peaty, Adele Parks, Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen, Alex Jones
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