Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗
In African families, you can be one of three things: a doctor, a lawyer or a failure. I wanted to be an Egyptologist, but things worked out in the end.
A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
Huckleberry Finn.
A baseball pitcher.
Never getting back to a size 12.
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
Swimming down the Thames on a full moon night 10 years ago. It was dangerous, but extremely joyful.
To my Latin teacher – I was very naughty.
Having someone to love.
At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.
Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Ann Dowd, Anna Friel, Anna Paquin, Ashley Jensen
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