Poetry [Lando Norris]

[thirty two]

one to one with matilda versace - anthony padilla.            (italics- anthony padilla)

"anthony you better not use a butt fuck ugly font when introducing me" matilda shouted into the camera, not realising Anthony had already started filming

"well hello matilda, it's good to see you" anthony spoke, the two hooked up on a discord call instead of the usual face to face he does

"good to see you too ant, should have messaged me sooner and we could have done this in person" matilda chuckled, tucking her legs underneath her as she knelt on her gaming chair

"alright i suppose we should start with the deep stuff and get lighter as we go on so we don't finish on a bad note but a lot of your music is about failed love or loving yourself before you can love someone else. i just want to know what your opinion is on love"

"oh wow okay right of the bat. i just" matilda sighs, smiling "loving is so natural to me, i show love in so many ways but i know loving me isn't easy. it's like, right so i overthink absolutely everything and then i used to close myself off when people got too close to loving me which i am still actively working on not doing by the way. fuck this is gonna get deep but i think it's because i grew up in a house where love wasn't always shown, my parents used to always fight"

matilda paused, taking a deep breath as she held back her tears "sorry um yeah my mum, she's strong as hell and the sweetest woman you'll ever meet but my dad wasn't the greatest so i suppose i just don't exactly know how to deal with receiving love in the same amounts as i give"

"i'm glad your able to confidently speak about stuff like this, it's refreshing"

"yeah i mean, i try to be as open as i can. i want to show that i'm just as human as everyone else you know" matilda smiles weakly

"and that leads me directly into our next question. do you see yourself as famous"

"i mean not exactly" matilda sighs, thinking carefully about her words "so i know i'm influential, i have a platform but you know there's only a select few people who know my name and face and listen to my music. I don't think i'm up there with say amy winehouse who literally everyone knows"

"i think your pretty famous" anthony nods

"anthony if you don't shut the hell up" she laughs, covering her face with her hands

"okay okay! alright then if singing wasn't an option what would you have loved to do with your life"

"okay i have like three answers for this. one would be a diver, i did competitive diving until i was sixteen due to an injury that still fucks me up from time to time now" matilda explained

"no way! do tell"

"right so i failed a dive and landed on my back after a 7.5 meter dive. really messed up my back and i still sometimes struggle walking long distances and even getting up because it strained a muscle and i was a stupid teen who didn't do any of her physio appointments"

"oh god, matilda"

"i know i know i don't need a lecture about it babes" matilda laughed, her and anthony having been friends for a while due to some of her other friends being on his show "anyways my second option would have been actually going to uni for a degree in criminology for no other reason than the fact that i'm a true crime fanatic"

"makes sense"

"and i guess my third would be full time honorary wag, i love watching lando race so if there was a way to be at every single race, i would take it" matilda's phone lit up with a text "speaking of, landos decided to come to mine unannounced so i'll be back in two seconds, just have to let him in"

Matilda muted her mic and stood from her chair, the video showing a blurry image of the two greeting each other in the doorway before she signalled lando into another room while she headed back into her bedroom "sorry about that, he's just got done with some f1 shit, i dont knows"

"all good, it actually fits perfectly into my next question, how do you cope when your best friend is away for so long"

"honestly it's hard sometimes especially with him living in monaco and me in london" matilda chuckled "it's worse when you get them 'shit i need my best friend' moments... yeah i mean it's hard but we're always in contact so it's not all that bad, we're both busy. Besides i like to focus on the positives, when i do see him it's for at least a month at a time"

"does it ever get tiring"

"oh yeah of course but it's all worth it. i mean he can be an annoying prick sometimes but isn't everyone's best friend" a faint 'i heard that tils' came from her side of the mic "yeah you were supposed to you melon"

"okay okay moving on, so i asked on twitter what questions they want to hear me ask you and a lot of them was about skins, what does that series mean to you"

"shit i love skins, i think if i remember rightly you can actually see little me in the background of season five. i think i was like eleven at the time. plus my dad owned the house opposite the stonem house so that's pretty cool"

"so skins was a big part of your life, did you live the skins life?"

"shittt anthony padilla your gonna get my pr team to hate me" the girl ran a hand over her face, wanting to be truthful "i didn't go to college but a few of my friends did so i often tagged along to the parties. my teen years where definitely similar to skins and i'm not elaborating on how"

"okay okay swiftly moving on to a question i'm really surprised no one has asked you, is there any relation between you and donatella versace"

"oh my god i'm so glad you asked this! okay i love telling people this. i've never actually mentioned this for some reason but she's kind of my great aunt? she's my mums aunt but only through the fact that my grandparents are like best friends with her. we're very very very distantly related hence the same last name but to me she's my auntie"

"that's actually insane matilda"

"oh trust me i know! i have photos to prove it too"

"okay okay you will have to show me after! but i guess my next question is can we be expecting new music soon?"

"short answer is yes"

"and the long answer"

"maybe expect more than one song"

"you can't leave us hanging like this matilda"

"i can and i will"

"well then to wrap this up, what is one piece of advice you'd give to everyone watching"

"no matter what your dream is, don't give it up because trust me, you don't need a miracle to achieve it"