Laura Kenny
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On my wedding day.
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1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
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At boarding school, I was unable to get the main part in Hamlet, so I put on a production of The Homecoming with my friends. The teachers came to see it and said they didn’t know I had it in me. It felt very good.
When it’s just us as a family on our island hideaway in Wales.
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Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
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That would have to be a film called Pickup On 101. It was a very interesting story, about a wandering musician and an old guy on his way back to his home town to spend his last days, but they made it into a pile of dishonest trash.
Making Apocalypse Now. I had a close call with a heart ailment due to anxiety, fear and physical abuse: I was not taking care of myself.
After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
Shares in The Way, which turned out to be the best movie I have done. Written and directed by my son Emilio, it’s a father-son story about the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
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