Hannah Murray

Yeah, there was a way in which my life was very unusual to a lot of my friends from university who were like doctors and lawyers and management consultants and various different things and worked in marketing and whatever.

And they would kind of be quite baffled by my life.

And I was often, I was unemployed for long periods of time, kind of waiting for the next job.

And

I think they found that very hard to wrap their head around.

They would be like, well, what do you do?

I don't understand.

What do you do all day?

And I was like, I don't really know.

There's that interesting feeling that happened to me very much when I got the part in Skins of you have been chosen and you are special and that we have seen something in you that means we are picking you over everyone else.

And that's an incredible feeling.

but it can also be kind of isolating.

It's exciting to be special and chosen and it's isolating to be special and chosen.

And then also you want to keep being chosen and then a lot of the time you're not.

And so it was again, I mean, the highs and lows I was experiencing anyway in terms of my mental health, in terms of my kind of search for happiness, I think was definitely exacerbated by working in that industry, which is all highs and lows all the time.

Yeah, I mean, a thousand percent.

You know, I had a very addictive relationship with...

various substances with alcohol, cigarettes, recreational drugs.

And I sometimes was like, that's fine.

That's just who I am.