Jessica Raine
British actress
I was fidgety and clueless for a long time.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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How close have you come to death?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
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Jess Phillips
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The prime minister.
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View profile →I didn’t learn to be intimate with people until I was in my 20s, so I was a very bad friend in my teens. There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.
My A-level results - I got two Cs and an A. I had applied to do philosophy at Cambridge, and thought my life was over.
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
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