‘I WAS JUST A SHADOW OF MYSELF’
In the middle of a high-profile break from cricket, taken last summer to protect his mental health, England test captain Ben Stokes sat down with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes for a documentary about his life and career. He barely remembers being interviewed.
“I was just a shadow of myself,” he admits, saying he had to watch the tapes back to get a sense of what he actually said.
“I don’t really remember what I was saying, what we were speaking about.”
Stokes looks back and realises he could quite easily have never come back. “In that period of my life, that’s where I was. I could see myself not,” he says.
The documentary,, shows Stokes in the middle of his break, talking
