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If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot – it’s a pilgrimage you want to make.

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I’d like to see someone try to make Cush Jumbo up. It’s my real name.

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I loved all the other movies, and I loved all the other movie stars, but I was very aware of the fact that I didn’t look like Marilyn Monroe – although I still wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. Then Josephine Baker popped up, and she wasn’t the maid – she was the star of the show. To me, it was mind-blowing.

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I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, ‘How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?’ Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called ‘Zouzou,’ and I was so stunned because she looked like me.

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My dad is the first to say that Mum deals with the mortgage payments, the bills, the rota, things like that, while my dad is the emotional one who keeps the home together. He’s the nurturer, but together, they work perfectly.

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Most of my friends are not actors. Most people have an idea of what an actor’s life is, and it’s pure glamour and excitement: it’s easy and free and everyone loves you. But with a certain level of fame, there’s a real level of paranoia and depression that comes with what you do, that nobody talks about.

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I’m not interested in being in ‘Heat Magazine.’

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I didn’t come out and roll from job to job – my first year was really tough. I had to work as a teaching assistant for an agency; I ran a pancake stall in Dulwich Market. I taught drama classes and ran my own workshops. I applied for every advert on Gumtree there possibly was.

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Playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar was the most thrilling thing I’ve done. You get these speeches that were written for men, and you’re running around like an action hero, climbing scaffolding and beating people up. It was very freeing.

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I’d much rather play the psycho than the pretty girl in hot pants.

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