Any time I’m in rehearsals.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
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Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor and musician
I look at my nephew, who is five years old and in a perpetual state of bliss; I imagine that’s what I was like when I was five. That’s not to say I am unhappy now; I was on top of the world walking through a park to work this morning.
Sarah Brown
British Anglican priest
Lots of times, mostly all connected to Gordon and my children.
Adeel Akhtar
British actor
At boarding school, I was unable to get the main part in Hamlet, so I put on a production of The Homecoming with my friends. The teachers came to see it and said they didn’t know I had it in me. It felt very good.
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Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
Cars. I’ve got a Tesla at the moment.
A pilot or a ranger in the bush.
Nappies aren’t fun!
The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.
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