The Independent - London, September 5th, 2002
It didn't take long. The actor Martin Clunes has just sat down in the lounge of the posh central London hotel where our interview is being held when a man at the next table leans across and, looking impossibly pleased with himself, says: "I hope you're going to behave yourself." The Men Behaving Badly tag sticks to the actor like a particularly persistent burr on a woolly jumper. "By and large, people only see me as Mr Men Behaving Badly," Clunes sighs. "I could play Saint Francis of Assisi and the papers would still call it `Monks Behaving Badly'.
"People come up to me in the street and refe...
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