John Wilson
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3,430 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
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start a sentence in English and end it in French and I'm fishing around for words that I can't find and people think it's incredibly pretentious but it's just because my brain's a bit slow.
Once I get into the swing of it, a couple of weeks I think it takes, then it's all perfectly natural again.
Your next choice for This Cultural Life is Michael Ondaatje, the author of the 1992 Booker Prize winning novel, The English Patient, which, of course, was adapted by Anthony Minghella.
And you were Oscar nominated for your role as Catherine Clifton opposite Ralph Fiennes.
Had you already read the book then when you were cast in The English Patient?
had I read the book.
I read it literally cover to cover, back to back.
And I heard that someone was making a film about it.
And I said to the person who told me, if you can get me a job on that film, I'll do anything.
Any of the parts?
No, anything.
I would bring in coffee.
I would be a runner.
I just wanted to be there.
I wanted to be part of that story.
It really deeply, deeply affected me.
I think that was probably the beginning of the curing.
Because I think it was probably the stuff to do with abandonment, just sort of knocking that one on the head.
When he leaves Catherine in the cave, for God's sake.
After a plane crash.
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