Judy Murray
Scottish tennis coach
When Sean Connery died. He was a big tennis fan – a big Andy fan – and I met him a few times.
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Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
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Sofia Coppola
American filmmaker and actress
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
Michelle Dockery
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Watching Big Little Lies season 2. Shailene Woodley made me bawl.
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View profile →In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
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