Hannah Murray

I did, you know, I started reading Harry Potter when I was eight years old and I kind of grew up with those books and with those characters.

And the idea of that world, of a sort of magical world that lives just under the surface of our own and that one day you might get a letter and suddenly be at this

incredible school learning how to perform magic and getting a wand and all that stuff I think it I don't know I think it was quite formative to my imagination and I think a lot of people of my generation did like invest so much in those those books and the world of them because it was such a big

I think a little of both, frankly.

I mean, I think, you know, a lot of people in their 20s go out, go to parties, have a lot of fun, like, maybe drink a bit too much, maybe take drugs, maybe whatever.

I think that I... I think I was definitely sometimes leaning too hard into that lifestyle.

And I think it also was slightly connected with being an actor of, like,

I wanted my life to feel exciting and interesting all the time.

And I was also being invited to these incredibly glamorous parties with glamorous people.

But I think that there was maybe also a bit of a sort of self-medicating aspect that I wanted to kind of forget how I was feeling.

And so drinking a lot was a way I felt I could do that.

And I think it did...

add fuel to the fire of some of the issues I was dealing with under the surface, for sure.

I did.

I think I would say that I did.

I think, I mean, it's hard because in some ways I was like, I've got the best job in the world.

I have the best job in the world.

And in sometimes, you know, it really was.

But there was a lot of it that I was not prepared for, didn't know was going to be a part of it.

And I found, you know, all the kind of like scrutiny of my appearance really hard.