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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tim Lewis

‘My disability is the least interesting thing about me’: Actor Adam Pearson on fame, film and his sibling rivalry

Man on a mission: Adam Pearson wears jumper by TDR at couvertureand thegarbstore.com; and shirt by Salvatore Piccolo at trunkclothiers.com.
Man on a mission: Adam Pearson wears jumper by TDR at couvertureandthegarbstore.com; and shirt by Salvatore Piccolo at trunkclothiers.com. Photograph: Simon Emmett/The Observer

Adam Pearson has a longstanding argument with his mother, Marilyn, about how well-known he is. The tension is most likely to surface when they are at home in Croydon and Marilyn asks the 39-year-old actor to do some menial household chore. For example: “We’ve recently put up a new shed, and tomorrow morning I’ve got to carry all the heavy stuff down to it,” says Pearson, with a weary shake of his head. “There’s literally a bag of cement. I said to her, ‘Why have we got a bag of cement?’ And she said, ‘We might need it one day.’ Fine! What day are we going to wake up and be like, ‘Oh, thank God we kept that bag of cement!’”

So, a do-you-know-who-I-am moment then?

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