Björk Guðmundsdóttir: What most recently made you cry?

What most recently made you cry?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Björk Guðmundsdóttir said elsewhere, not written here

Yesterday. Love.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2013 source ↗

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Paul Theroux American travel writer and novelist

The death of my father in May 1995.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2013 source ↗

Mark Bonnar

I cry if one of the kids says something profound without knowing it; I cry at adverts; I cry at Strictly Come Dancing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗

Sofia Coppola American filmmaker and actress

Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗

Kate Mosse English writer