Joseph Fiennes
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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.
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Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
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Martin Freeman
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The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.
Working at a petrol station.
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As a dad who was OK.
A Savile Row suit. Never again. Although I love it, I still feel guilty about what it cost.
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