“My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.”
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Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.