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Washing up in the Ford factory canteen in Dagenham.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2022 source ↗
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Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
Brendan Gleeson
Irish actor and director
Fixing a municipal sewer pipe.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
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Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
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