Hannah Murray - ‘Everything Fell Apart’
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Now I can understand all of this as undiagnosed bipolar. And I remember thinking as I was experiencing it, like, this is so amazing. Why have I ever taken drugs? This is so much better.
What challenges did Hannah Murray face while acting?
And I just thought, this is it. This is the magic solution. This is the silver bullet.
How did Hannah's memoir address her traumatic filming experiences?
This is the thing that will fix me. And then everything fell apart. When the word sectioned was used, I just remember kind of thinking, that doesn't really make sense.
What does Hannah reveal about her struggles with happiness?
That doesn't really fit in with what I understand is going on.
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How did Hannah's exploration of Reiki lead to a crisis?
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You can't rationalize it. You can't figure it out.
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When does the pursuit of wellness become an addiction?
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What was the turning point during Hannah's breakdown?
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How did Hannah cope with being sectioned?
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Hannah Murray worked as an actor for over a decade and developed a reputation for tackling emotionally complex characters with great sensitivity from a young age. At 17, Murray starred as the self-destructive Cassie in E4's Skins. Later, she juggled an English degree at Cambridge University alongside playing Gilly, an abused wilding who births her father's child in HBO's Game of Thrones. Her film roles include Detroit, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, in which she played a survivor of police abuse, and Charlie Says, where she portrayed a real-life Manson family member. When the physical and mental stress required from these roles began to take its toll, Murray sought treatment from a Reiki healer.
From there, her life began to spiral as she became heavily involved with a healing organization whose promises of real life magic and enlightenment were increasingly seductive to a highly vulnerable Murray. She ended up being sectioned after a psychotic break and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Now, she has written her first book, The Make Believe, a memoir of magic and madness, is a deeply personal account of these events, written with compulsive lyricism. It takes readers on a journey to the edges of reality, where magic seems possible, and where the liminal space between what is real and what is imagined becomes ever more porous. It has already rightly been heaped with praise from, among others, Dolly Alderton and Sophie McIntosh.
The events the book details, says Murray, were intensely challenging to live through. But, she adds, the process of writing them down was powerfully rewarding. Hannah Murray, welcome to How to Fail. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's my honour, having been lucky enough to read a proof copy of The Make-Believe, I concur with all of the praise that you have had. It is an astonishing book and one of the best memoirs I've ever read. I couldn't put it down. I felt so compelled to read every page. I think the gift you have with language to explore some things that are so difficult to explain is astonishing. And I appreciate that today we're going to be talking about a lot of really difficult stuff. And I wanted to start by saying that I acknowledge that.
And I also want to thank you for the gift of your communicating it.
Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. That's all. It's all really wonderful to hear. And I think, yeah, I sort of felt like if you're going to go on How to Fail, you have to come with some real failures.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:11
2
What challenges did Hannah Murray face while acting?
0:11–0:15
3
How did Hannah's memoir address her traumatic filming experiences?
0:15–0:27
4
What does Hannah reveal about her struggles with happiness?
0:27–0:59
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How did Hannah's exploration of Reiki lead to a crisis?
0:59–1:25
6
When does the pursuit of wellness become an addiction?
1:25–1:36
7
What was the turning point during Hannah's breakdown?
1:36–1:45
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How did Hannah cope with being sectioned?
1:45–1:00:24