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“Not interested.” Who? Many people.
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What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
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"You can't see your children for two weeks." (When I was going through my divorce.)
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
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I thought I’d be smarter by now.
When I was 19 I worked at a gay bar while I was at drama school in London. One of the guys I worked with was Glaswegian and I learned the dialect from him. The acting teacher at the school said, “Liev, you’ve got the region but you’ve missed the character entirely” because I played Jimmy Boyle in a very camp Glaswegian accent.
My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
Watching the Olympics.
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