Realising what adulthood is after waiting so long to get here.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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This country’s enchantment with privately educated, self-serving liars.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
Without naming names, some people I’ve put a lot of faith and trust and love into.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗
Politics. And casting directors.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
Not marrying the person I wanted to marry, but now I think it’s probably good that I didn’t.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2024 source ↗
When a relationship I’ve been invested in stops working. And yet, here I am, happy as you like.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
I was very sorry to stop at two children – I would have liked to have had a third – and I am very sorry to have got divorced.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2024 source ↗
Not getting into drama school when I was 17. In those days, the first thing people said was, “Where did you train?”
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
Feeling so helpless. You feel that governments should be making better choices; people are speaking out and nothing seems to be done about it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗
That money doesn’t buy happiness.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗
That I never became a virtuoso musician.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2024 source ↗
My local Tesco stopping stocking Häagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Crunch.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗
The years I lost trying to fix my second marriage.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
At 16, I thought I’d be part of transforming the world into a socialist egalitarian arena of peace and justice. I’m not sure we’ve quite managed it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2025 source ↗
The main courses are never as tasty as starters. But enough about my sex life.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
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