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I'm getting quite good at dying.
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Mostly, that's me in
a bed, in a hospital,
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looking pasty and terrified and tetchy.
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They expect you to be tetchy.
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Like, I had PCP for
a single on Channel 4.
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Pneumocystis pneumonia... horrible
job, take after fucking take.
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The director comes to me,
Dan, his name is, he said...
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"We need to see more anger, yeah?"
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I said, "Why?"
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Well, he just looks at
me like it's obvious.
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"Because the Government
are doing nothing, yeah?
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There's no funding,
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and these fucking iceberg
films they have on telly now,
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it's fucking criminal."
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I said, "I thought my character
would probably be past anger
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by this stage. I'd probably be
thinking much more practical things,
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like, is this going to hurt?
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Or will it be over quick?"
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"What would I have done
with my life if I'd lived?
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Maybe. Could I have done things
differently, been more careful,
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made different choices?"
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Anyway, he wanted anger,
so, ooh, he got anger.
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I channelled the anger I was
feeling towards him and that helped.
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This is a key skill.
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Some actors can't draw on
themselves, their experiences.
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I can,
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though, obviously, I'm not dead yet
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so I've been having to make that up.
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Then after that, I did a film
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where I get stabbed by a serial
killer who's picking on gays,
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for some unknown reason,
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but, obviously, that
was just a metaphor.
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When the police finally catch him,
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even he doesn't know why he does it.
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I saw that when it
went out at the Curzon
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and I could hear quite a few
people sobbing in the audience
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when I pegged it.
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I got a bit tearful myself, actually.
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It's just the face.
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I look young and innocent, so
you're immediately thinking,
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"What a waste."
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That's why I get the parts, I reckon.
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The scene... I'm really good at
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is the deathbed scene where
the boyfriend shows up.
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More often than not,
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I'm doing well health-wise
when the complications hit,
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so the sudden deterioration's
a surprise for both of us.
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He's sometimes older - not
always - cute, obviously,
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but there is an awkwardness between us.
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It's not actually said, but...
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... you get the vague sense
that he's been messing about
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in saunas and toilets and
not taking precautions,
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while I, of course, have
been faithful as a puppy,
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so then there's the
injustice of it, too.
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I have a bit of a barney with
him, but I'm generally forgiving.
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I just go a bit arch, you know,
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got me sparky sense of
humour right till the end.
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Eugh.
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I had lunch with my agent, and
she's dead pleased I'm working...
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and so am I, but...
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... it's getting a bit samey.
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I don't feel like I'm
moving forward, you know?
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She reckons I should be grateful.
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"You're really grabbing
at the heartstrings, Phil,
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really making an impact."
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I just worry they're going to
get sick of the sight of me.
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Him again... dying, again."
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She wasn't having it.
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"The characters you get
are pivotal, Phil, pivotal.
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Everything around you
changes once you're... "
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"Gone, yeah?" I said,
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"It's awfully nice that my
friends get really, really upset
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when I'm dead,
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and then kind of reassess
their priorities and stuff.
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I just wish I made it past page 18."
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She said, "You get the full fee."
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I said, "That's not the point."
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Still, it's work.
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She said there might be a role
playing a bat thing on Doctor Who.
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"Do they still make Doctor Who?" I said.
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"Apparently, yeah."
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Plus a bit-part in an indie film,
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English mourner at a
funeral in New York.
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"Can you do grieving?"
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I said, "Probably."
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The truth is, I don't
have much to draw on there.
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I've been lucky.
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I know what it looks like, though.
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I've seen it.
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I've seen it often enough, too often.
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Horrible.
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Then out of the blue, she asks me...
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... if I get tested.
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I said, "What?"
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It's none of her business.
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I don't,
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as it happens.
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I couldn't face it. I'd sooner not know.
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I'm just not strong enough.
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And it is possible to not
get it, if you're careful...
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and by careful, I don't mean
bloody celibate or monogamous.
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I fucking love sex, me.
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Bum sex mainly, but there
is an underrated beauty
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to blowing a total
stranger in a toilet cubicle
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that's hard to convey,
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and if you try to convey it,
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it gets boring or icky,
quite quickly, so...
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No squatting on your haunches...
knees must hit the floor,
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and eye contact throughout.
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Ooh. Oh!
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I could be blowing someone now
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if it weren't for this
bloody death scene.
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Agent's promised she'll get me a role
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that doesn't involve losing half a stone
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and whiting the face
up, so fingers crossed.
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I quite like doing coming-out scenes,
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though even there, death
crops up pretty quickly.
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I did a play where I was Liverpudlian,
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so it was dead bitter, but really
funny, like corrosively funny.
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The mother's mopping the
floor, and I drop the bombshell.
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We have a row. I throw in...
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LIVERPOOL ACCENT: "What
do you want me to do,
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get married and be unhappy?"
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She comes back with, "Why not?
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That's what I bloody did!"
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The mother gets the best lines.
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The gay boy's the feed.
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Then, of course, she realises
I'm not done with the bombshells,
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and the full horror of her situation
dawns on her... her little Billy,
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gay and dead, in quick succession.
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"More than a poor
girl's heart can take."
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The upshot is, she loses her faith.
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That was at the Finborough,
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so while she's rowing with
the bishop at the funeral,
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I slip out early and
get down the Coleherne.
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There's a bloke goes there some nights.
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Simon.
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Fucking...
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The legs. Dancer's legs, and,
sorry, I actually am a size queen.
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I make no apologies.
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Simon fits the bill.
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The best fuck ever.
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I've kind of got a
top top-ten in my head,
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and for a long time, it was a guy
I met in Portsmouth at number one,
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but Simon has knocked
him off the top top spot.
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Dead fit, proper man.
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Nice enough bloke, as
well, sense of humour.
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I don't normally talk to
blokes down the Coleherne
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cos it risks breaking the spell,
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but it hasn't broken Simon's spell.
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Agent called yesterday, got me
an audition for a TV new soap.
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Gay character... called
Clive, who isn't ill,
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and according to the man
at the Beeb, never gets it,
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it's actually in the contract.
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Just has a life.
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Has the same kind of plotlines
as the other characters,
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but from a gay perspective.
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So, well, that'd be progress.
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If I got it. He's also not camp,
which is fairly important...
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not that I can't do camp, but
the days of Mr Humphries are over.
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Lads at school used to take the
piss when that programme was on,
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not of me... I'm not naturally camp.
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I can go quite blokey, in fact.
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I should get put up for
more straight roles, really.
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I did play angry
shopper in Albion Market,
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but it wasn't established
whether he was gay or straight,
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so it doesn't count.
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Nor does the bat thing on Doctor Who.
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Well, not really.
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No, Clive isn't camp, but
he's not blokey either.
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He's, um, sensitive,
takes life seriously,
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and may appear guarded
when we first meet him,
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but underneath, he's warm, emotional,
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and soon becomes a popular
member of the local community.
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LAUGHS: I can play Clive...
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... standing on me head.
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Ah, so now it's my fault, is it?
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Oh. So now it's MY fault.
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Is it?
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Oh!
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So now it's my fault, is it?
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Oh...
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Clive is the most boring man
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ever presented on a
TV screen... seriously.
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Fretful fucking creep.
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Not camp, no. No sense
of humour whatsoever.
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I've got this beige
boyfriend, like Clive Mark 2.
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Only taller with a pierced ear.
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And the fucking hugging we
get up to... oh, scandalous.
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I can't get ill, obviously, of anything.
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The fucker isn't even allowed to cough.
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Plotline at the moment where I turn
out to be fiddling my tax returns
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so me and the boyfriend can
build a beige life together.
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I had thought fiddling the tax
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might lead to a prison story,
which could be quite, um, meaty.
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But no. Clive's not fiddling THAT MUCH.
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Of course he fucking isn't.
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Eurgh.
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Ah...
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Simon's not beige.
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That's one colour that
Simon really isn't.
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He's so fit.
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We've kind of been seeing a bit
more of each other... his suggestion.
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It threw me at first.
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We'd just got it on in the Coleherne,
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cubicle nearest the window, and...
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He gets nasty, does Simon.
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Full palm of the hand stuff.
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And we were having a
pint in the front after,
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and he suddenly says,
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"We could go and see
a film or something."
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The thought of us,
hand-in-hand, buying popcorn...
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But we gave it a whirl, and...
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... it was nice.
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He's strong. Only a
few years older than me,
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but he's lived proper, man, like a...
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big brother.
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Taps into something, you know?
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SIGHS: It's nice.
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His legs are incredible.
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I know he's more than just a
pair of legs, but all the same.
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I could actually play...
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... in love, these days,
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if the right part would
only fucking come up.
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Oh, so now it's my fault, is it?
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There's a line in next week's episode
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where the beige boyfriend
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says he's thinking of moving
back to Hemel Hempstead.
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I have a feeling Clive's
going to go with him,
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so that'll be the end of that.
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Yeah, good riddance to him.
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I went back to the agent.
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She says Clive isn't easy to love, and,
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"If you are dropped
from the show, darling,
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at least you're not
leaving in a wooden box."
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Which is true.
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I just thought that I was...
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... getting somewhere.
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Still, I'm up for a tour of
Bent at the end of the month,
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so it's not all doom and gloom.
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I just think, if you're entering
into a relationship with someone,
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you should be honest from the start.
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Not hide any bombshells, pull
the rug from under a bloke's feet.
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I was completely not expecting it,
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just sitting with him on
the sofa watching a film,
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and he comes out with it.
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"By the way, I'm positive."
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Well, he must've seen panic in my
eyes because he immediately says,
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"We've been safe. You're
not in any danger."
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Which calmed me down a bit.
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Still, I was shocked.
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He said it was more than just HIV.
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He actually had
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AIDS.
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"But I'm OK.
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I'm looking after myself.
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I get regular check-ups,
do all the right things.
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Yeah, I get scared sometimes, but...
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I stand a good chance.
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And I wanted to tell you,
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because, well, it's
important if we're going to...
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... get more serious."
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I didn't say anything.
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Just nodded.
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Well, it's a lot to take in, isn't it?
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We tried to just spend
the evening together,
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but an hour in, he says,
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"This silence isn't just you getting
your head round the news, is it?"
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I just looked at him.
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After that, he went off
into the kitchen and...
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I heard him crying.
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Sobbing like a baby.
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So that was that.
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Spell broken, well and truly.
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It'd be nice if I had some work
to take my mind off him, but, um...
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You see, the fallow
periods are part of the job.
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The trick is not to see one
rejection as part of a trend.
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Time passes, though, doesn't it?
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I won't be in the young
and innocent market forever,
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and then dying's not
as in demand as it was,
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which is ironic because there's
more dying now than ever - way more -
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but the circus has moved on.
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Doctors say it's heading towards a peak,
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and with all the drugs coming up,
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more people are going to
live longer and longer.
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It'll be like normal lives.
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Well, that may well be true but...
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... I wonder where it all leaves me.
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I mean, the only thing to
do once the '80s are gone
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would be to wipe the
slate, press reset, start...
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... having fun again.
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And then no-one's going to
want to watch the stuff I made
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once it really is over.
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I mean, why would they
look back on all that death?
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It's just depressing.
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It's no way to move forward, is it?
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So, no repeat fees.
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My oeuvre will moulder in the archives.
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I ran into him last week, Simon...
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... in Tower Records.
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He doesn't go down the Coleherne now.
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He was there with his little
BF... smiley, cute enough,
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and clearly Lady Helium Heels.
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Well, he'd have to be.
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We talked a bit, but it was...
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... a bit awkward.
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I came away wondering whether he'd
even told the little boyfriend.
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Well...
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It's none of my business.
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I know what my future will be.
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I'll get work... quiet,
single bloke at party,
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some swish loft apartment, music.
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I'll be just right for the man
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who can't quite get
into the swing of things.
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Some young blonde lad'll
come over and start on me,
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"Oh, smile... it might never happen."
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And that'll be my cue...
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... to wag my finger, to
lecture, tell them what went on,
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what WE went through.
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They'll all listen, but
it'll be uncomfortable.
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They'll all kind of exchange
glances, let me say my piece,
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and then I'll probably storm off.
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The blonde lad'll say something
funny to lighten the mood.
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Time was, it was me
who had the funny lines.
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Sparky sense of humour.
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Only back then, I was
dying, and they're not.
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But what was I supposed to do?
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He broke the spell.
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If finger-wagging really is
all I have to look forward to,
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then I'll have a lot to
work with. Have you heard?
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The Department of Health's
pulled its finger out...
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they're going to print
some information about AIDS
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in the papers... only Thatcher said no.
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They should just stick some
posters up on lavatory walls,
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and leave it at that, because normal
people can't catch it, you see.
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And no-one wants to read about
arse-fucking in The Sun, do they?
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The Sun. "When you mess with nature
you've got it coming to you, mate."
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The Sun. And we've got
Private Eye telling us
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gay stands for "Got AIDS Yet?"
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That's a good one, isn't it?
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The Met police raided the
Vauxhall Tavern last week.
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The coppers were wearing rubber gloves
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to protect them from the gay plague.
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Stuff like that...
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... is happening to us.
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While hundreds of people die,
our friends and our lovers,
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stuff like that is fucking commonplace.
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It feels like the
world's gone cold and mad.
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And I'll bet you, years from now,
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if you want to get anywhere
near this stuff on stage,
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you'll have to do it tangentially,
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use some clever trick
to keep things light,
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because, hey, being gay in the '80s
was more than just AIDS, wasn't it?
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Was that anger enough?
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