"I didn't know this when I was experiencing it, right? It's only in hindsight that I have this clarity about this thing. But when it first happened to me, I thought it was me," he says. "When you've built up a track record of like, you know, failing math, failing different exams and teachers saying things to you, you start to think that’s you because you've got to, you'vegot to track record of it." He adds: "This was the first time ever that my character was kind of proven wrong".