Elizabeth Day
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5,372 appearances
35 recordings
8 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 3d ago
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I felt so compelled to read every page.
I think the gift you have with language to explore some things that are so difficult to explain is astonishing.
And I appreciate that today we're going to be talking about a lot of really difficult stuff.
And I wanted to start by saying that I acknowledge that.
And I also want to thank you for the gift of your communicating it.
Well, I notice in that quote that I ended on, you said rewarding, but not healing.
Yes, we'll get more into the meat of that.
But I was so struck reading your book and doing the research for this interview that
how the acting roles that you had, I mean, they were never easy comic characters, were they?
Yes, that was going to be my question, actually.
Do you think you were drawn to those roles or do you think that casting directors were drawn to you?
And I'm going to come on to filming Detroit in a second because that's how you open the book.
But just before we do, so many people have such personal relationships with your work, with Cassie from Skins, with your role on Game of Thrones.
What's that like for you now, now that being an actor for you is a thing of the past?
Yeah.
Do you still get people having quite visceral reactions to you and how can you handle that?
I said in the introduction that your book, The Make-Believe, is written with compulsive lyricism, and it was the closest thing that I could reach for because it's sort of poetic but pacey.
Thank you.
It's so good.
How did you go about learning how to write?
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