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Dear Buzz,
Animal Farm, I enjoyed your piece on it. What a story, reckon it could ever happen?
George
Dear George,
It happens all the time, you know. In fact I was on a school trip once and a duck looked at me
funny; next thing I knew we were all tied up in a barn being interrogated by farmyard animals. I
managed to untie myself and told my classmates and teachers I was going for help. And here I am
a quickie
years later replying to this letter. I never went back to save them. So if you ever happen to find my
comrades, please tell them I am very sorry. And also tell them never to trust farmyard animals.
But then again at least the animals stuck together. So I guess the moral of the story is don’t trust
with...
me when I say I’m going for help. Although they may already know that, so probably best not to
state the obvious, they may be a bit tetchy on the subject. Buzz
BEN BARNES
Dear Buzz, The character of Dorian Gray is supposed to
Bog snorkelling looks great fun. Have you ever tried it? be a vision of beauty. Is being asked to play
Cat
someone so fiendishly handsome flattering or
embarrassing?
Dear Cat,
That is a bit cringey. It wasn’t cringey to be asked
No we haven’t. I did used to hang around a bog/brook kind of thing when I was younger though,
to play it, but it is cringey to try and answer this
and one of my most horrific memories was falling in it. Whilst I was under the water I saw all
question, because part of me still feels really
manner of horrors floating in there. When I came up for air I was a changed man. I had also
young, and just the skinniest boy in the class, as
I always was. The fact that his looks didn’t fade,
learnt a lot about what people do in brooks at night. But we assure you that bog snorkelling is a
that was the important thing, not the fact that he
much safer affair and I have had a few friends who have tried it and now go back every year. I do
was so overtly beautiful. I think the real nub of it,
advise you don’t practice in the brooks of my home town though. Unless you feel like going through
though, was the fact that he didn’t change at all,
a similar epiphany to mine that is. Buzz
which I think is terrifying.
Unlike the novel, you find some sympathy for
Dorian in the movie…
WE DIDN’T KNOW THAT LAST MONTH
I hope we do, because in the book you don’t particu-
larly. The book is about the picture and the world
pic: Kevin Fai
that swirls around Dorian more than the decisions
1 – Police officers are not required to he makes. Oliver [Parker, the director] wanted to get
be able to swim
inside his head a little bit more.
2 – The dye used in blue M&Ms can You’re building quite a body of work – do people
help mend spinal injuries
now stop and recognise you in the street?
People just don’t recognize me, actually. Maybe
3 – Wild orangutans use leaves to it’s because I have my hair back or have a beard or
make their voices deeper and to
whatever, or maybe because I am not that popular.
scare predators
But there must be more recognition recently?
4 – 17 million people in Britain aged
Most people who are aware of me have seen me
over 15 do not use the internet
only in one thing a couple of years ago so actually
I’m really not recognized that much at the moment.
5 – North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il If I am at an airport, a theatre, a premiere, then the
has a water slide in his garden
alertness is higher. So it’s more on those occasions
that I’m recognised.
you what?
Are you concerned that it might change?
I am pretty prepared for it to change because I
want to be successful in what I do and I realize
that comes with the territory. One interview was all
“
He is only good for two things, bait or food.
about my eating habits, etc.. I find it uncomfortable
to talk about those subjects. To me it is not interest-
- Some friends planning their Congo expedition. ing. I don’t want people to know what time I go to
”
bed, people I don’t know.
What time do you go to bed?
Very funny!
“
Oh my god, it was like being at a party full of those
babies that were chucked away at the beginning of
What is next?
I don’t know what I’ll be doing this time next year.
300
There are definitely a few films I would love to be
involved with if they happen or maybe some theatre
- a rather arrogant acquaintance.
”
stuff. I am open to offers. In fact please send them
to…
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