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Family: 'People always talk about Sam': Sam Frears has a rare condition and wasn't expected to live beyond five. Now 40, he's an actor, an avid rock climber and an inspiration to his family and friends
2012
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[Stephen Frears] admits he couldn't cope with any of that. \"I'm afraid to say I didn't do it. I couldn't face it. I'm a baby. I'm a coward,\" he says in the film. \"He did do my back once,\" Sam says. \"Hmph. That's good of him,\" [Mary-Kay Wilmers] replies. In between episodes of extreme illness, where he would be fighting for survival in hospital, Sam led a fairly normal life - climbing trees, falling out of them, playing football, making sure he got more attention than his younger brother, Will. Look, he says, parts of his life are rubbish, but in many ways he has been lucky. He is privileged - his parents are wealthy, well-educated (Mary-Kay went to Oxford, his father to Cambridge), successful and loving. Both introduced him to their creative worlds. Sam has been an extra in a few of his father's films and knocks around with many contributors to the London Review of Books. Does he read their work? \"No!\" he says, as if it's a ridiculous question. What, he's never read an [Alan Bennett] book? \"No. I've seen his plays. I loved The History Boys. I saw The Habit of Art, which I don't think much of.\" (Bennett is more generous: \"An encounter with Sam invariably cheers you up,\" he says in the film.) As for the writer Andrew O'Hagan, Sam's chief pleasure seems to be baiting him. They went to the same barbers, Ossie's, and had a competition to see who could get their photograph on the wall first alongside other famous customers such as Suggs and Trevor McDonald. Sam won. \"Andy just can't bear it that he's not up there and I am,\" he says gleefully. \"Why are you ashamed?\" Mary-Kay asks. Sam swallows loudly. \"Because one of them had a boyfriend at the time.\" Girls are a recurring theme, in the film and the book. His friends say he has a knack of setting his heart on the unobtainable - young, beautiful, blonde and about to be married. Why blonde? \"Because I can see them more clearly!\" Sam admits he is a terrible flirt, and uses the same chat-up line when a girl he likes tells him her name, he tells her it's his favourite. \"I got it from Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses. I get all my lines from Del Boy.\"
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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