The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Not doing as well as I’d hoped in dancing competitions. I was massively competitive and massively disappointed most of the time. It’s the same now.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2019 source ↗
My failure to come to grips with all these disappointments.
Retiring from playing rugby.
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?
At the time, not landing the role of Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army, but it all worked out fine in the long run.
As a wonderful husband and a great father, and somebody who inspired others to pursue their own dreams, like Fred Astaire inspired me.
I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.
Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
I don’t know, because I spend like a man with three arms. I am always spending on clothes; I like to have things made.
When the babies were born, in March 2017.
Gemma Whelan, Guy Pearce, Eleanor Tomlinson, Lolita Chakrabarti, Kiefer Sutherland, Katherine Parkinson
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