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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗
People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
Fourteen. Dew-soaked plimsolls, flying my kestrel before school.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.
Sharper knives.
The day I had to stop playing football five years ago. I realised I couldn’t hack it any more.
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
I’d like a manoeuvre called after me, in the way Heimlich has.
Lack of self-doubt.
My dog wanting to go out for a wee.
Isabelle Huppert, Julia Stiles, Samuel L Jackson, Julie Andrews, Brian Cox, Sofie Gråbøl
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