![]() ![]() GQ magazine recently suggested that Henry was undergoing a renaissance (a “ Lenaissance”, they said) but honestly, all through his long career, Henry has flitted and filled his days like this, gigging, writing, acting, campaigning, broadcasting, studying. At home in Oxfordshire he keeps a copy of The Sopranos scripts on his bedside table, to help him sharpen his showrunning work on an imminent ITV drama about the Windrush generation. Overnight, episodes of the new The Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power, will appear online Henry has a small role as a hobbit. In another three, his children’s novel, The Book of Legends, will appear in bookshops. It is three weeks to the day since he published a volume of his memoirs, Rising to the Surface. “And I don’t think I’ve planted my own garden very judiciously,” Henry says when we meet for lunch on a mild September afternoon. Be careful what you plant in them because everything needs tending. L enny Henry’s mum used to say to him: our lives are like gardens. ![]()
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