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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Nancy Durrant

Amanda Abbington on her West End show The Unfriend: “I’m very polite, unless I’m in the car on my own”

Amanda Abbington

(Picture: Matt Writtle)

Amanda Abbington has always been terribly polite. Well, mostly. “Unless I’m in the car on my own and people don’t say thank you,” she says. “Then I'm really mouthy and nasty.” She’s not kidding. She once got so cross on the motorway that she actually followed someone in her car to a service station car park to tell him off. He was mortified, and she ended up buying him a coffee because she felt so bad about it.

“That's one of the most embarrassing things I've done,” she cringes. “From ‘why don't you say thank you?’ to ‘have a cappuccino on me’. I'm really sorry. Come and live in my house. Please have all my money.”

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