Think the inflight entertainment is bad? For actors it’s worse. “The overcrowded cabin, tasteless food and germ-infested air-conditioning usually found on aeroplanes held no terrors for me – after all, I’ve worked at the Barbican – but I also knew that, with a journey time of just over 11 hours, the in-flight entertainment was likely to include several hours of recent television favourites. Actors go on holiday to forget all the jobs they have missed, not to be reminded of them, and I braced myself for the worst.”