The actor, 48, on Star Wars, bubble baths, and doing the Spitting Image voice of Priti Patel

My mum would leave me in Bath’s public library on Saturday mornings so she could go and do the shopping. I was three or four. You wouldn’t do that these days, but I remember it as a safe place. Thrilling, too. It felt like freedom, all the books and endless possibilities. My mum’s nickname for me was “Muni” – if she couldn’t find me, she’d call it really loudly. In a library. Mortifying.

Be unafraid. That’s what I try to teach my daughter. Be brave in your choices, don’t worry so much about what other people think.

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