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The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2024 source ↗
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.
One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
Leaving the stage from a panic attack in my 20s. Hearing the audience angry.
I once threw up on the shoes of one of my vocal heroes, the Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. He sent me home in a taxi with a towel.
Living life to the full, not having regrets and not trying to plan your future too much. Just enjoy every minute.
Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
“Your cooking sucks” – before I learned to cook in Covid.
Nothing: I live in the now.
All of them. I’m not someone who can sit down and read – I wish I could.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
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