ROBERT CARLYLE

DECORATOR & WAREHOUSE WORKER

“I was a painter-decorator. It’s no real fun. People’s image of that is a person hanging off a building shouting at women in the summer. Imagine them in the same building in the winter, when the fuckin’ paintbrush is fuckin’ welded to your hand with the cold. That’s the other side to it. That was pretty horrific. That was what my father and my uncles and my grandfather did — the Carlyles are known for that. I also worked in an automotive component place, a warehouse filled with car parts. At the beginning of the day all these guys in suits would come in and hand you a piece of paper and you’d walk up and down these aisles trying to find these fuckin’ things, and I can’t tell you how fuckin’ cold it was. It was always freezing cold. So my shit jobs have really been to do with Robert Carlyle versus the fuckin’ cold, really. I could bore you with another 20 of them.”