The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Jill Nalder. Lydia West played her character in It’s a Sin. She was on the wards with nurses caring for patients who were dying [of Aids] when lots of people wouldn’t go near them.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 March 2025 source ↗
Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.
My wife, because she has to live with me.
My little sister Grace. In all the ways in which I am not capable or grounded or calm, she is.
Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.
I can be an overthinker and a vicious self-critic.
It’s the stuff about my appearance that sticks. I read I had a face like a crumpled napkin and teeth that could till a field.
Early in my career I got really close to being one of the kids in the Narnia movie. I remember being crushed.
Like something or someone is part of your DNA, the fabric of who you are.
At the Mighty Hoopla festival, Kimberley and Nicola from Girls Aloud joined me on stage for a Girls Aloud song. I completely forgot the words.
Jackie Chan, Alison Steadman, Dominic Cooper, Sheridan Smith, Julia Stiles, Carrie Fisher
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