If you knew then, what you know now... what would you tell yourself?
In her BBC Radio 4 podcast Young Again, journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Young takes her guests back to meet their younger selves and asks the question: if you knew then what you know now, what would you have done differently?
“She was trying to say - because I was messing about, ‘Oh, Daniel, look this person's written a play and you haven't.’” “It was cool,” says Daniel with real understatement, “and my whole school year there. It was cool. And they’re just saying words that I wrote.”From an early age Daniel could understand, “how a scene takes two different points of views.”
“So then, my mum just listened because... You know, I really, wanted to be a boxer - she didn't listen to that. And then I wanted to do football but she couldn’t engage with football like that. Then I would produce beats, I used to sing, I pissed off my music teacher so then that got taken back. So I was just left with acting.”"That was when I wrote that episode . I got into drama school, and I did Mitchell and Webb and we got the car home.
“And then she was like, ‘Yeah, I think it sounds like you should do that, ‘cause it sounds like your agents are really good, so you could be a thing and you can always defer it .’”“Basically, she left the space for me to listen to myself… she's mad cool.”“My Uncle Sam in Uganda was a big male role model for me, my mum, Ian Wright,” says Daniel, a huge Arsenal fan.
Daniel is involved in many initiatives to engage young people with the performing arts. Does he see himself as a role model, asks Kirsty.
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