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His character, Ollie – funny, sensible, but multilayered and with possibly a very dark side by the end of the series – wasn’t written as a child with a disability at first.

“I think improv is what made it look more natural and I think it made it funnier.” Rush was encouraged to improvise with the rest of the cast, and turned out to be brilliant at it. The audition for Am I Being Unreasonable?, the dark comedy co-written by and starring Daisy May Cooper, came up during the filming of Dodger. Rush plays a road sweeper, Morgan – a cheeky, cheerful boy who is, says Rush, probably the closest character to himself that he has played. He enjoyed filming the BBC show Dodger because there are a lot of other children and young people in it. Photograph: NBCUniversal International Studios/BBC The closest character to himself … Rush as Morgan, with David Threlfall in Dodger. “This is really ironic coming from someone with dwarfism, but you’ve got to be the bigger person.” He laughs. Now, what do you want to play?’” Has there been any jealousy? “There is definitely a little bit of jealousy it’s one kid in particular and you can’t do anything to stop that,” says Rush. “I remember saying: ‘I’ve been filming for Doctor Who.’ I’ve got a friend who’s a big fan of it. He is, he says, “very lucky with my friends – they are all lovely, very supportive” but they’re not overimpressed. They went: ‘You can still say it.’” He just couldn’t read it. “I turn up and my swear word has been crossed out on the script. “Which I understand – there have got to be.” He loved the day he got to swear on Am I Being Unreasonable? In the car on the way to filming, he was practising his line over and over, just for the fun of it. “It’s a fine balance, because Lenny would do this full-time if he could – he absolutely loves it and he’s living the dream at the moment – but he is young, and he needs to have that time where he keeps his feet on the ground.” There are strict rules about being on set, he says. She and her husband are adamant that Rush experiences a “normal” life away from work. They don’t treat him any differently, says Lisa. When he is away, he and his friends message each other a lot, or play video games online together and chat, “so that’s helped me keep up with them”.

Has it been hard to switch between work and school? The longest time he was off was about three months, for Am I Being Unreasonable?, though he had a few days back at school during breaks in filming. He will be in the new series of Doctor Who next year and is increasingly laden with awards.

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He has been in TV shows including the children’s drama The Dumping Ground, and this year had a part in Best Interests, the drama starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen. I’ve been so honoured and so lucky.” He performed for two years running at London’s Old Vic, playing Tiny Tim in its production of A Christmas Carol, and also starred in the BBC adaptation with Guy Pearce. “But I never thought it would get to this stage. The more he did drama, the more he thought he would like to have a career in acting. ‘The show has changed my life’ … Dustin Demri-Burns and Rush in Am I Being Unreasonable? Photograph: Alistair Heap/Boffola Pictures “It can be such a mix of emotions – watching the appeals can be quite emotional, and then you’ve got funny, uplifting sketches. If I’d said no, and then I watched it that night, I would be gutted I wasn’t there.” He has watched it for years. Is he nervous? “I am, but I think the excitement outweighs the nervousness. He doesn’t know what he will be doing yet last year, he overshadowed everyone in a sketch as the hapless manager of a celebrity call centre, but this time he will be presenting live. Rush, 14, is about to be one of the presenters of Children in Need. The show has, says Rush, “changed my life”. In May, he won the TV Bafta for best male comedy performance for his role as Ollie in the BBC series Am I Being Unreasonable? as well as two Royal Television Society Programme awards in March. “That wasn’t a good mix,” he says, “because my mum went, ‘You’ve been nominated’ and I went …” He pretends to punch the air in triumph, then mimics extreme pain. The moment that Lenny Rush found out he was in the running for a Bafta, he was in a hospital bed, recovering from spinal surgery.