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The Importance of Hating Your Work
At eight years old, I got my first job as an actor on Desmond's. The show was about a black family in Peckham who owned a barbershop. It was so human even though it was massively flavoured by this Caribbean family. All the makeup artists were black and they would give me little bald sweets. And something went off in my head - maybe what I've seen in my family and their relationship with work doesn't apply to everyone because these people look like my family and they're having a great time. So what would it be like for me?