In 2008, my daughter @CamillaCleese voluntarily gave #MailonSunday US Editor Caroline Graham @cg66 an exclusive interview about growing up, our relationship, her journey as a comedian and going through recovery, in a bid to be open and honest.
@CamillaCleese wanted to set the record straight to prevent tabloids trying to dig up dirt later.
Jun 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
For any of you struggling with writer's block or feeling a little less than creative, just know that it's perfectly normal and part of the excruciatingly painful and rewarding process.
For A Fish Called Wanda the ideas came slowly. I did 13 drafts altogether: 8 minor drafts and 5 major drafts. I would do a draft which was about trying to get character right, then another draft which was about trying to make the plot make perfectly good sense.
Jul 13, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
My American friends are asking me about President Trumps’s observation that the British ‘like him’.
I regret this is quite unfounded.
The explanation for this canard is that Trump is pronoid.
Pronoid is the opposite of paranoid. A paranoid person thinks, without any basis in reality, that everybody is out to get them. A pronoid person is someone who thinks, without any .basis in reality, that everybody likes them