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Mark Strong says his absent father is what made him “incredibly independent”

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Desert Island Discs, Strong talked about how a lack of an “authoritarian figure” growing up meant he had to learn some of life’s important lessons on his own.“He left when I was a baby so I didn’t really have an awful lot to do with him,” he said of his father. “I am not sure where he is now.

The thing perhaps that we have in common is that neither of us seem to have needed each other particularly, which is sad on one hand but on the other what it managed to do was make me incredibly independent.”He continued: “I think having no authoritarian figure or figure that you had to feel you had to please or look up to meant I had to make it up myself.”Looking back at his childhood in North London, the actor, best known for his roles in Tinker.

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