Will Sharpe

Because like I say, a lot of what I write seems to sort of reflect back on that in some way, you know.

And yeah, definitely was an adjustment.

And I definitely felt, yeah, like somebody trying to learn how to fit in and trying to learn, yeah, like new ways of communicating.

And

I've said this before as well, but I've weirdly, because I enjoyed creative writing exercises and had by that age, maybe started to feel like, oh, if there's like a poetry homework assignment, I seem to get good feedback on that.

I sort of had found a confidence in writing.

And so I felt like, weirdly, there was something quite empowering about being able to write the language, feeling sort of like I could write it well and was confident writing it.

And that was a way of almost like grounding myself in the country a little bit, even if I felt like socially I didn't quite know how to communicate.

I don't know if I ever felt like it was possible to pursue it as a vocation because my parents do not come from creative backgrounds and I was never really anywhere near that world.

You know, my dad was really into books and I could tell that I enjoyed it.

I didn't really have a sense that acting or comedy was a thing until quite a bit later, I think, at school, in my teens, maybe.

And I think I remember having some sort of version of a conversation with my mum where I was like, I don't really understand...

big deal with acting?

Isn't it just sort of pretending?

And she was like, we'll do it then.

And I was like, okay.

I think at school I really didn't have a sense that it was possible.

And, you know, had an interest in it and wrote a play and some sort of slightly embarrassingly Rushmore-esque kind of moments.

But, like, maybe towards the end of university you would see some people going on to...

doing it as professionally and that made it feel like maybe it's possible.