I cry all the time. Films can tip me over. Especially Pixar ones. I alarmed my kids when we went to see Coco – I was a mess. I cried at the Elton John gig at Glastonbury.
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The last time I really sobbed was watching Daniel Radcliffe’s documentary about his stuntman on the Harry Potter movies [David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived].
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The death of my father in May 1995.
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When I watched a series called Pose. The hospital scenes took me right back to when we were going through the Aids years. It’s the same with It’s a Sin.
In 2001, when my eldest son died.
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View profile →Every time I go on a plane I feel awful about it. So for me, and everyone in the world, being able to board an electric plane would be really cool.
My housemate, because I keep shrinking his jumpers in the wash.
So many things. Every headline in the newspaper, global warming … the list goes on.
Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar in Shoreditch, London.
When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
My mum [the actor, Sally Dynevor] in so many ways. She is the real definition of a superwoman to me.
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