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S5, Ep7 How to Fail: Meera Syal
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
How to Be a Character Actress
I think I could have starved myself for 25 years and been a size 8 and probably it would have got me more work but there was a bit of me that just goes actually fuck that because I'm a normal size woman in real life. So yeah, it is hard not to take it personally but you can't. Anyone that manages to get into the room to see a director and produce it has already beaten loads of other people. It's a chemical thing when you're casting - sometimes somebody turns their head or delivers a line or they just look how the writer imagined so I know that intellectually it can be a million different reasons not to do with the fact that you're talented. That one
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