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When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
I remember being a teenager and writing this romantic short story in the style of the Brontës on a computer and I didn’t realise that the person whose computer it was could just print it out. A group of boys had a couple of pages and they were all reading it.
I was about six years old in a market square in Italy and my dad said, “Oh, those shorts would look perfect on you.” So he whipped my trousers off and I hadn’t got any knickers on.
I was in Oliver! when I was 10 and I peed myself on stage in front of however many people the Palladium holds. It was the stuff of nightmares.
Being an actor is inherently embarrassing. You have to embrace it.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
Not following through on things.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
A successful marriage, my third.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
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