cram

Those who didn’t find room with relatives cram into public schools and hotels, squat in abandoned buildings or, for the truly desperate, sleep in makeshift tent encampments that now line the city’s parks and seaside boulevards.

But while it might have been possible to cram in more beds, finding the extra skilled workers to staff them was far more difficult.

They escaped north with little more than whatever they could cram into or atop their vehicles.

He also revealed that there was "no obvious role" for him in the film, but "they wanted to cram me in".

"But they wanted to cram me in," he said.