Anne-Marie Duff

Yeah.

There was probably about 20 of us, I'm guessing.

I don't know if I'd say it was, I was always feeling that I was waiting for the bus to pull up with my life in it.

I had that feeling.

And I think the bus pulled up when I went to drama school.

But I, so it was fantastic and fun.

But school wasn't easy and, you know, so... And why wasn't school easy?

I didn't fit in.

It was a...

outer london greater london comprehensive and it was big yes as they all are thousands a thousand thousand children boys and girls yes and it was during thatcher and if you wanted to focus on anything creative that wasn't um praised or encouraged as much as focusing on job for life barclays bank job for life you know it was a very different climate in that way

I just felt like I was on the wrong planet.

And so that doesn't aid you in terms of... That's quite a big feeling, I'm on the wrong planet.

Yeah, but I think that's quite... Usually waiting for the bus to come.

That's quite common for creatives, I think, who aren't fortunate enough to... And maybe it's more common for girls, I don't know.

It certainly could be, because I have no opposite experience to compare it to.

Not so much.

That didn't happen until drama school, and then I was like, oh, my God.

was quite good at sport but I didn't love it I sort of saw it as another vocation I could see oh no I'm I'm busy with this one now this I'll be doing the acting I'll leave the sports to the sporty people GCSEs okay yep all very good all very good yeah because I was smart and in your creative writing what were you writing

So they were sort of period dramas that I was writing.

No, but what I mean is they would be... The dramas as in a story.