Krishnan Guru-Murthy
British journalist
Every offended interviewee who thought I was asking hard questions for some personal reason. It’s never personal.
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What is the worst job you have done?
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Failure & regret
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My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
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Rose Ayling-Ellis
British actress
My dad’s family, for fake drowning when I was 12 on holiday in France – it caused such embarrassment that we had to leave. All because I wanted to get the inflatable ring off my brother. It still haunts me. I guess acting was always going to be my future.
Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
The people I never thanked for what they selflessly gave me in my career; when I was younger I just took it for granted.
Kiefer Sutherland
British and Canadian actor
There have been moments when I’d want to say sorry to both my parents for some of the stuff I’ve done.
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Watching the Olympics.
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.
A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.
Acting – it’s also the best, though.
“Not interested.” Who? Many people.
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