Getting even older.
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Seeing my kids getting older scares me.
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Geoffrey Rush
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It’s not sudden.
Becoming invisible.
Having conversations with young people who you remember being born.
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Complicated, chaotic, messy.
On stage with my band.
I was in Oliver! when I was 10 and I peed myself on stage in front of however many people the Palladium holds. It was the stuff of nightmares.
“You’re not in Busted any more.” I successfully auditioned to be in Busted and then a couple of days later I got a phone call to say that I was no longer needed as they were going to keep it as the three of them. But it ended up being OK.
I’m quite stubborn.
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