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The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗
I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
A review of Phèdre said – because I was quite large at the time – Toby Stephens’s Hippolytus needs to get on a StairMaster.
A pearl diver in Japan.
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
Watching all of Fellini’s movies one summer.
One handsome dude.
You have to go to the end of the line.
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