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Nicola Walker
English
Actress
Born:
May 15
,
1970
Actor
Family
Me
People
Think
You
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I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.
Nicola Walker
Good
You
Will
Drunk
Secrets
Tell
Except
Absolutely
Am
Very
Anything
Keeping
Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.
Nicola Walker
Worry
About
Fitting
Fitting In
I've always had a resting expression that either makes me look deep in thought or as though I'm about to fight you. I've lost count of the number of directors asking me what the problem is when all I'm doing is sitting still and being.
Nicola Walker
Me
You
Fight
Problem
Thought
Resting
Lost
Though
About
Directors
Count
Had
Look
Makes
Always
Still
Doing
Sitting
Being
Either
Asking
Deep
Expression
Number
I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.
Nicola Walker
Work
Carry
High-Quality
Doing
Just
Want
Once you've sat in a room annoying Derek Jacobi while he's trying to do his crossword, you're prepped for working with the greats.
Nicola Walker
You
Once
Crossword
He
Annoying
His
Greats
Trying
While
Room
Working
Sat
We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.
Nicola Walker
Money
Job
Made
Out
Bought
Call
Got
Still
Literally
Sofa
I'd do anything with Tom Courtenay.
Nicola Walker
Anything
Tom
I am not a morning person.
Nicola Walker
Morning
Morning Person
Am
Person
Breakfast is a battle. I never feel like eating, but I have now found my way to porridge. I have it with full-fat milk and banana.
Nicola Walker
Battle
Breakfast
Way
Eating
Never
Feel
Like
Banana
Found
Now
Milk
I was on a tour of a Restoration comedy in 1996, and in Moscow we stayed at the Metropole hotel, off Red Square. The food there was opulent, but in the Maly theatre canteen, there were just a few pieces of rye bread, peanuts, and gherkins. I stood in the queue and burst into tears.
Nicola Walker
Food
Theatre
Comedy
Tears
Few
Stayed
Restoration
Tour
Red
Hotel
Moscow
Pieces
Were
Off
Queue
Square
Stood
Just
Bread
Burst
Peanuts
Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.
Nicola Walker
Our
Finest
Actor
I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.
Nicola Walker
Detective
Absolutely
Appalling
When I bought my first little flat, it was two bedrooms, so I got Sarah Phelps to live with me. My years-later-to-be husband was slightly thinking, 'Why are you inviting your friends to live with you?' I was very resistant to leaving my friends.
Nicola Walker
Me
You
Husband
First
Live
Thinking
Slightly
Bought
Inviting
Got
Bedrooms
Leaving
Friends
Very
Flat
Little
Your
Sarah
Why
Resistant
Two
I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.
Nicola Walker
Macbeth
Like
Lady
Really
Play
You can't escape your face.
Nicola Walker
You
Face
Escape
Your
You just have to look at me to know what I am feeling. So I would be a useless policewoman or spy.
Nicola Walker
Me
You
Feeling
Would
Would-Be
Know
Look
Am
Spy
Just
Useless
The confidence and charisma it takes to stand up in front of a group of children absolutely terrifies me.
Nicola Walker
Me
Confidence
Group
Charisma
Absolutely
Takes
Up
Front
Children
Stand
Stand Up
When I look back at the Nineties, I realise there wasn't very much TV I wanted to do.
Nicola Walker
Back
Nineties
TV
Look
Very
Wanted
Realise
Much
I can't tell you the excitement to be in a new TV series or a play you've got to read for. That's the best.
Nicola Walker
Best
You
Tell
TV
TV Series
Excitement
New
Read
Got
Series
Play
Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.
Nicola Walker
Work
Me
Crazy
You
Background
Bit
Issue
Go
Yes
Which
Little
Little Bit
Working
My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.
Nicola Walker
Family
Back
Ran
East
London
Fact
Could
Soon
Heads
Around
Still
Were
End
Child
Get
Moved
Cannot
Whole
Away
Filming in London is brilliant.
Nicola Walker
Brilliant
London
Filming
High-end divorce is a closed world. When I tried to research it, I was really surprised about how little there is out there. I think that's because of the nature of the subject matter - privacy is incredibly important to this level of client.
Nicola Walker
Nature
Privacy
World
Matter
Important
Closed
Research
Think
Incredibly
Out
Tried
About
High-End
Divorce
Because
Client
How
Surprised
Subject
Subject Matter
Little
Really
Level
Two of my dramas, 'Unforgotten' and 'River,' were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my 'success' in a newspaper - he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, 'Does this mean I'm going to be put in a box for a bit now?'
Nicola Walker
Success
Time
Brilliant
Thought
Thinking
Dramas
Airing
Bit
About
River
Had
He
Put
Read
Box
Does
Were
Same
Going
Same Time
Mean
Newspaper
Dad
Now
Two
It's now become a joke in my family that as soon as I finish a job, I'm on a loop saying, 'I'm never going to work again' - it drives everyone mad!
Nicola Walker
Work
Saying
Family
Job
Joke
Become
Everyone
Mad
Finish
Never
Drives
Soon
Loop
Going
Again
Now
'Spooks' was very much of its time and rather unique, so I was more than happy to be in that as a long-runner - because I think we won't have that sort of show again. I think it was really, really unusual.
Nicola Walker
Time
Happy
Think
Rather
More
Sort
Unusual
Because
Very
Than
Again
Much
Really
Show
Unique
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