Since her breakthrough role as Vod in Channel 4’s Fresh Meat, Zawe Ashton has been the cool actor we all want to be friends with. Ashton has gone on to star in multiple West End productions and more hit TV series like Netflix’s Wanderlust, as well as write a book, Character Breakdown.

Earlier this week, she joined Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie on the Table Manners podcast. She talked about growing up in Hackney, her mum’s Ugandan cooking and her love for Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

But one thread of conversation that will really strike a chord with many millennial listeners was about her decision to move back to London after living in Margate for a while.

Zawe Ashton on the “embarrassment” of things not working out in a new city is too relatable