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W：Luke, you made a big decision four years ago. What was it?
M：Basically, I gave up my business studies course, and decided to try acting as a career instead.
W：So how did it all happen?
M：I’d completed about two years of my university course. I’ d done pretty well in all my exams and everything, and I was planning a career as a manager in a big company. I think I had a fairly good chance of doing it. Anyway, it was during the summer holidays. I suddenly had this terrible feeling that I just didn’t want to do this. So I wrote to my college and said that I wasn’t going back.
W：What did your parents think?
M：I think they were probably horrified, but they didn’t say anything. They were very good, I suppose. They just said it was my life and I had to make up my mind.
W：So what did you do?
M：I didn’t do anything much for a while, then I travelled for a bit in India and the Far East, and while I was there, I thought a lot about what I was going to do with my life, and in the end I decided that I just had to try acting as a career. It had always been something that I loved doing, and I wanted to find out if I was good enough to do it professionally. So I applied to a drama school, and luckily they accepted me.
W：You finished that course a couple of years ago. Have you been able to find work as an actor since then?
M： To some extent, I get some bits of work, but I’m certainly not rich and famous yet. I also spend a lot of time working in bars and restaurants…you know temporary jobs, when I haven’t got any acting work.
W：And do you ever regret the decision you made?
M：No, never.