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00:02so overwhelming oh my god is she here hello hello hello it's lovely to see you all okay
00:15smart am i here yeah yeah you're not watching rose in between two thorns
00:23your name anna hey anna hi anna right from martin nice to meet you nice to meet you
00:30i hope you don't eat fruit or vegetables i say i have a phobia i have a little fear of
00:37sandwiches
00:38okay why is that no one else feels similarly no no you can't even relate can you relate no no
00:56what age are you harry would you like to introduce us of course good luck harry
01:03hello hello and welcome to the assembly thank you for having me our collective of autistic
01:10neurodivergent and learning disabled interviewers our rules are no subject is out of bounds no no
01:19question is off the table and all might happen please tell us who you are my name is anna maxwell
01:27martin i'm an actor do a bit of um advocacy as well as my spare time but mostly acting and
01:33mumming very
01:35nice to have you here today anna so you're you know motherland as well yeah motherland was a big part
01:40of
01:40my life would you be in streetly no we're going to start with a question from nicola
01:51hi hi nicola hello how much are you getting paid for this
02:02i'm not being paid for this how do you know if i say it no okay
02:10can you eat a roll or a bat that's in the area of sandwiches isn't it
02:19yes i think i could if it was very plain about ketchup yeah i don't agree with ketchup thank you
02:28thank you nicola next we're going to hear from jamal
02:33hey all right hi jamal how are you you good i'm good how are you i'm good i just came
02:38from nottingham
02:39today did you on the train yeah this morning yeah that was early i know i know yeah visit sometime
02:48okay have you ever used your acting skills in real life to maybe hide an aspect of yourself
02:57uh yes i definitely can put on more of a show with people than i would feel naturally
03:08to be comfortable in a social situation i have also used my acting skills when i got into a spot
03:15of
03:15bother at an airport i didn't have the right ticket so i did a lot of crying trying and pretending
03:21of
03:22sort of having a breakdown so they'd let me on the plane okay that's cool yeah yeah well i just
03:27went
03:28it was in singapore so i was a long way from home
03:37yeah so sometimes you have to don't you get you get a spot of bother
03:41yeah yeah i like that it's cool it's cool thank you thank you thank you thank you our next question
03:48is from essen what do you think of method acting
03:57i really think on acting each each to their own do you know what i mean no judgment whatever you
04:04want to do to fulfill your job title it's totally up to you yeah um i would probably say maybe
04:11more
04:11men are able to method act than women who are probably doing an online shop uh to the supermarket
04:18whilst also doing their job yeah so yeah uh thank you very much thank you ali you're up next
04:29um did you ever stand up for yourself when you were bullied in the industry
04:34yes i've always stood up for myself oh that's good then yeah i'm glad you did
04:41yes that's kind of a short one okay um how often do you laugh every day oh i'm a big
04:50giggler
04:50big giggler i think i laugh a lot i laugh with with and at my kids a lot that's what
04:57i thought
04:57you would say uh and luckily they laugh a lot which i'm quite glad because you know they've had a
05:04tricky road and they still do laugh a lot i laugh when something was was funny but you're a great
05:10laugher she's good at that yeah i find quite a lot funny yeah okay okay um thank you for your
05:18time
05:18um thank you thank you annie mikey you're up next go on marky hi hi anna it's nice to meet
05:26you you too
05:27um i just wanted to ask you a question about it is about loss because i've recently just lost my
05:34dad
05:36oh mikey i'm so sorry so i just wanted to know um how are your kids sort of dealing with
05:41their
05:41dad's knots and do you have any he's gonna give you a cuddle you don't have to have a cuddle
05:47should i just rub your arm mikey i'm so sorry it's free no you don't need to hey you don't
05:56need to
05:56apologize but how are your kids sort of getting through well thank you so much for asking because
06:02sometimes i don't know if you found this people don't ask because they're scared aren't they yeah
06:10for my kids it was four years ago
06:15i give you all the strength i can muster because it's a long road where you need a lot of
06:20patience
06:21don't you yeah i'm lucky because i have this very nice support they're very supportive we all have
06:28your back mike and i think i think if it was like last year or any time before that i
06:35wouldn't have got
06:35through it mikey i'm so pleased you found your people and you know
06:45he's looking down on me and he's proud of me oh gosh without a doubt i'm quite grateful for that
06:50so yeah my next question is and it's a bit shady so you might want to
06:57muckle it down a bit my next question is i heard you met your your lovely new man at work
07:04yes could you spill the tea on how you met yes i will spill the tea what's a new man
07:10he is a cameraman
07:11really is he one of these cameras he's not here right now oh i thought that was him over there
07:21his name is richard we've just come out of covid and i was on a production
07:26and i thought he looks nice and so i made it clear to him that i thought he looked nice
07:33and then we went on a date and you got married we're not married i'm not marrying any of these
07:40cameramen no he's lovely you're lovely uh but i've got dicky now so i don't need you thank you very
07:50much
07:50thank you thank you now we're going to hear from julis
07:57hi um bringing the energy down a bit again um i also lost my father four years ago when i
08:05was 16
08:06and i know how difficult losing a loved one at a young age can be or at any age i
08:11was wondering if
08:12because i know you also experienced that do you feel it put you in a better position to comfort your
08:19children because you'd also been through that or was it maybe a more traumatic thing that you found
08:24quite difficult to get through while also being there for them that's such a sweet and insightful
08:31question thank you so much that question sorry i missed your name julis julis i'm so sorry i'm sorry
08:37about what happened it's really hard yeah um
08:46i think it's sort of a it's a yes and a no i lost my daughter i was 24 and
08:55it was very very hard and i felt very very very alone so that was that and then obviously it
09:04happened to my children and i think in a way i could understand better of course because i understand
09:09about loss i really tried to be the best mum that i could for them
09:18i think sometimes i failed in that and i'm you know sort of picked myself up and apologize and
09:25um trundled on i just think it's so individual it's so hard i can see how hard it is on
09:32you
09:33because mikey's getting upset and we absolutely you know we all feel it do you know i can say i
09:40know
09:41this is a real cliche it is but i do think it's true it it has made me like bizarrely
09:48such a positive
09:50tenacious person and so actually in the end it's been it's been really hard i'm not
09:58going to lie to you but it makes me like just smash the doors off of life yeah
10:12you're so strong we all we've all got your backs
10:25to check see the children i just do worry about them a bit so i check um could check a
10:33lot
10:33but they also do have to get somewhere so i hope they are trying to get there okay and
10:38not lying in their beds oh yeah yeah uh now we're going to hear from thomas lav
10:43hello um my name is thomas lav even translated from slavic croat croat into english thomas john
10:52i'm diagnosed with autism bipolar and i'm morbidly obese and i adore celine dion
10:59don't we all this is a lovely person well it would be a great honor for me if you read
11:06my poem
11:07it's called mr jupiterian he's from jupiter reading anna maxwell martin star on stage and screen
11:15okay i wrote it myself mr jupiterian yeah
11:20mr jupiterian drives back again he drives no one knows when
11:26mr jupiterian marches down the slope of his flying saucer he says to the crowd that he's a fan of
11:33chaucer i've come here from planet jupiter here to your earth is giant gulliver
11:40is there some place to let with a 50 meter bed he had a packet of margaret light before he
11:47slept
11:47for home he wept he got a grip and entered his ship
11:55i told the crowd i'll miss you so then off he flew that is absolutely brilliant
12:03tom as well thank you keep it keep it it's your present i love he got a grip and entered
12:09his ship
12:12do you write question mark i write but not as well as that
12:18now we're gonna come to sophie your shoes are amazing mark suspensors i know they do some really
12:24good they are on form at the moment hello hi hi sophie what did you shoplift from the shops and
12:33did you ever get caught yeah okay so i look i'm not advocating this okay guys just so when i
12:40make that
12:41very clear no one go shoplifting um what i found out sophie was i don't even know if this is
12:47true
12:48that for a year after you've had a baby they think you're a bit
12:55and so they don't really prosecute you for shoplifting and i got this into my head so i thought yeah
13:02i'm
13:03gonna yeah i'm gonna have a few things um and i would take very big things so say like a
13:10case of
13:10wine yeah all those big you used to get these big boxes of nappies and i would just keep the
13:16big thing
13:17in the trolley and i'd go through and if they said oh love you haven't paid for that big box
13:22of wine i
13:22go oh god sorry or i'd get the babies to hold things did i've got one off love um yes
13:29i did get caught
13:31with a warning a couple of times in the supermarket i started acting again crying saying i'm very very
13:36tired i've just had a baby i can't cope sorry maggie give me back that mascara why are you holding
13:42why
13:42are you taking a mascara maggie yeah just blame the six month old baby if in doubt tell us something
13:52that you've never told anyone before um i would say i do have a crush on
14:07where's that camera man oh no no it's not him oh okay okay um on is it ant or is
14:20it deck uh
14:21the littler one deck deck i'd say i've got a little crush on him oh yeah i've never said that
14:28before but
14:29now i have okay next we have a question from chardonnay
14:35hi anna i'm chardonnay are you labour conservative or reform uk
14:46i would never support the tory party i would never ever ever thank you for that thank you for
14:52that um i'm not a reform girl um and labour who i did used to support unfortunately have made big
15:02cuts
15:02to the adoption of special guardianship um support fund who support really vulnerable children and i'm
15:08so disappointed that the labour government have cut that therapy funding so what happens when you
15:13vote for labor you see a bunch of donuts they're probably a bunch of something okay and now we're
15:20gonna hear from gary oh yeah you did you listen to be presented is that because the acting work was
15:25actually drying up gosh gary you're completely right aren't you an insightful person gary um
15:34um it was just after my kid's dad had passed away and i couldn't really i couldn't leave couldn't
15:41really leave for long stretches of time i didn't take a big acting job for quite a while after that
15:46and actually presenting like i could just bobble in yeah do a bit of presenting for the day or just
15:52do a panel show in the evening get paid so yes to answer your question um i did enjoy it
16:00but it was
16:00yeah to fill a little it was you know some employment our next question is from joseph
16:10hello hello anna nice to meet you hi nice to meet you joseph so the way you describe your sensory
16:17problems it gives neurodivergent vibes have you ever first person to say that
16:25have you ever like considered that you might have something yes i have um there is asd in my family
16:38if i was neurodivergent it's not affecting my life overly like i think i can
16:45be a quite a good mum um there's nothing that affects my job so i wouldn't necessarily feel like
16:55i had to go and get a test and and get a label that's a bit vague no i completely
17:00feel what you're
17:01saying i feel like the only time labels really are beneficial is when uh whatever you may have is
17:06seriously impacting your daily routine in your life but in a sense of like you know putting people
17:13in a box which is a lot of us get put in is what the main issue is so i'd
17:18love a label if it gets
17:19support rather than systems that are set up almost for us to fail exactly yes yes but my kids do
17:28talk
17:28about that yes all right speaking of um families i want to start a family but i am worried about
17:39passing my traumatic experiences down to my children how do you break the cycle
17:47we do pass down sort of um trauma don't we and my mum's history was really really interesting she'd come
17:54from real real poverty and actually i think it had made the women in her family and down our line
18:03like badass bitches like just off the chain strong but i yeah i did have like thoughts i had to
18:15kind of
18:15control after my children's father died i thought this is a real overshare but i thought
18:23is there something around what's circulating around me and that my dad died that i've created an
18:29environment where that happened again now obviously that's not the case it doesn't
18:34isn't what's happened at all but i suppose there's an insight into how our thoughts can be quite
18:41intrusive can't they yeah very but i would say when there is like trauma that's your point to go
18:48i'm not passing this on i'm going to change the course of because you seem like a lovely person
18:54and i'm sure you would meet your children with unconditional love and support and that's all
18:59children need and that is what you would do so you know you're not going to pass on yeah
19:10i feel like i'm about to start over sharing but um i think i'll move on um to the next
19:16person but
19:17yeah honestly really lovely to talk to you oh lovely to talk to you
19:24lovely thank you thank you thank you for those questions you should be in line of duty i was in
19:31line of duty for for a little bit did you smash it i absolutely smashed it well done
19:37off to you ben all right what is fart tennis oh fart tennis okay that sounds interesting yeah okay so
19:50fart tennis is pretty basic um anyone can learn this game really really quickly so you you lie in bed
19:57with your partner or someone i'd be willing to play with my children that would be fine you feel a
20:02fart
20:03coming on but you have to sort of have bums touching but clothed clothed always and you do the fart
20:10oh god but the other person has to reciprocate pretty quickly you've got to remember it's like a
20:15game of tennis you can't linger too long you've got to do the fart then the other person needs to
20:20respond pretty quickly okay that sounds interesting then weird oh so weird that's what it is and now elijah
20:35hello hi is it elijah yeah yeah hi last question is when were you happiest
20:48oh that's such a good question do you know i am really naturally um an optimist i feel it's one
20:58of my
20:58greatest genetic luck outs yeah so when you say to me when were you happiest i don't go to a
21:07period
21:07in time i think oh well it'll be today with my kids having dinner or i'll get home i'm going
21:15to go
21:15and see them now we're going to the orthodontist and we'll probably have a laugh there and i'll think
21:19oh god i feel so lucky i feel happy i feel like i'm going to always try to find a
21:30little bit of
21:31happiness every day that's probably the sweetest answer you could have given that was really nice
21:37thank you thank you thank you love wow that was the assembly
21:56what do you all do now do you have a little lunch and things thank you thank you for looking
22:04after me
22:05it's been great to meet you as for the first time in my mind
22:11i'm hopefully moving in my new place where are you moving to not far from her actually
22:21it's going to be quite scary that's frightening i get that it's not me it's mum oh is it is
22:26she fussing
22:27yes she is yeah well that's what we're here for for the fuss