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Luke. It’s hard growing up with a heroin addict, and I treated him in his vulnerability in a way I would never have treated anyone I worked with.
I was not great with my mother-in-law, who was a very gentle woman. I thought she would be an uninvited part of my life for ever, but she died early and I wished I had been more open and patient.
To my mum, for never being able to live up to what she would have liked me to be. She always wanted me to be a little princess and I was never going to be that.
To my teachers in high school - that I didn't punch them in the mouth for discouraging all my interests.
With time and experience you figure stuff out, so I am happiest right now.
David Bowie’s Life On Mars.
When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.
This morning: I lost a couple of friends recently and it’s been tough.
I got stabbed in the neck with a light tube during a wrestling “death match” two years ago. It was scary. I thought I was dying: your life does flash before your eyes.
I collect old costumes: I have one of Johnny Cash’s, and Liberace’s shoes.
Riz Ahmed, Dominic West, Rhys Ifans, Nicola Walker, Burt Reynolds, Alison Steadman
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