Filming a TV show in a field in the snow in February in the Dublin hills for 14 hours; the director said, “We’re not going to get that shot today.”
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Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
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View profile →It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
Selfless and open, freeing.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
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