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The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
The first video game I was in. I was 13 and video games were the world for me, and my character was awful. He had this terrible orange 'fro, his voice was a man's and he was slow and didn't turn well – nothing like me.
The outcome of the Leveson inquiry.
Not directing a major film.
The lack of role models in leadership in the US, in particular our government.
My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.
On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.
At a pub in Rotherham. I was a really bad waitress and I ended up being demoted to chopping the potatoes and I even got fired from that.
Having no way of earning money.
I was recently made to feel that it’s my mental health that’s the problem and not the system.
I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
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