John Wilson
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2,755 appearances
21 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
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Did you never talk about it with her later?
Yeah, we did.
But it was always a bit fraught.
And because it was the sort of conversation you have in the car, you know, and I would always be riding shotgun because I was a very good navigator.
And we'd have all the other children in the back.
And so it was the sort of thing you talk about on long journeys.
But it always got a bit, you don't want to.
dig too far and she would get very upset and she was very, very emotional and would be triggered, as you say.
You know, she'd watch television and suddenly burst into tears and we'd get a bit irritated by it, you know, sort of, oh, for God's sake, can't she just grow up?
But poor thing.
I mean, I think now, having heard all my life, oh, just think about your mother.
At the time, I was a bit fed up with thinking about my mother.
But now looking back, I think, God, you know.
And what about you?
How do you think that experience of grief, loss, of trauma, how has that affected your personality and maybe the way that you project yourself and the sort of characters that you play?
Well, it's given me something to work with.
I think that it has certainly made me quite good at telling stories about people who have a secret suffering and have to keep a stiff upper lip and keep going.
I was thinking, I mean, Fiona in Four Weddings, who is the sort of epitome of that?
She had this secret that she keeps under wraps and won't tell anyone, and then it all comes out.
And I think I've been quite expert at that because there was very little acting required because I had all this sort of built-up...
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