Elizabeth Day

Let's get on to your second failure, which is your failure to compromise.

In your words, Richard, I can be quite stubborn and tend to hold on to things in principle, even when they are small or not especially important.

Yeah, that's me.

Give me an example from work, if you have one.

Is there something that everyone was saying, no, don't, you can't put that in the script, or you can't do that, Richard, and then you sucked your guns and you did it?

Really?

I'm so glad she's miraculous in that role.

This inability to compromise, as you put it,

Do you think it also, it's a weird question, bear with me, affects how you perceive of your own sexuality?

Because I'm always really interested in the way you talk about your sexuality.

You've said that the closest approximation is probably bisexual.

But it's sort of more than that, isn't it?

It's more nuanced.

I mean, forgive me, because this is my interpretation of what you're saying.

But for me, when I read what you said about it, it's more about the person than any other label.

And I think others sometimes struggle to not put a label on people's sexuality.

I was about to say, I can so see you as a parent.

That's what I'll call them.

Do you bear a grudge?

Just generally, do you have grudges?