, with the billy elliot story of the kid from a northern, industrial town, a mining sort of town wholiant natural dancer and then has to struggle with himself and his family and his community about getting into the right sort of dance school. yes. to explore his passion. that isn't quite what you're telling me. it wasn't that, sort of, having to escape. no, first of all i don't, i wantto be very honest, i was not naturally, i'm not naturally talented. what i am is, i have one talent and that is i, when i get obsessed with something i commit to it in a very extreme way, i can go into my parents‘ garage, which i did at the age of i think, just after gcses, i was lost for a while and i went into my parent's garage and they thought i was at college. so, for a year i was hiding out in my dad's garage. doing what? training in indian classical dance and that is my talent, i did ten hours a day. wow, entirely in secret, private just for yourself? yes, that was my form of escape. ijust wanted to get really good at it, ijust became obsessed by it, i was fascinated by kathak, north indian class