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, 27 October 2018 source ↗
A man. I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don’t like being identified as female: I’m a person.
A writer. Always.
I wanted to race cars.
Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
Cleaning toilets in a hotel in Croydon when I was 16. A guest once gave me a half-eaten bag of pistachios as a tip, so there were perks.
Not accepting every dare.
Anna dared me to jump off a cliff in Menorca on holiday a couple of years ago. I did. I fell 30m through the air, hit the water at an odd angle and shattered my coccyx.
In my 20s, touring small arts centres with my best mate, performing sketch comedy to a handful of people.
Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Ann Dowd, Anna Friel, Anna Paquin, Ashley Jensen
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