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, 13 April 2019 source ↗
I did want to be an actor from an early age although I briefly dabbled with the idea of being a vet until I realised you had to stick your hand up a cow’s arse.
J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
A writer, I’m sorry to say. Boring, I know, but true.
A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
Staying sane in a career path that tries endlessly to unnerve you.
The world doesn’t reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.
Everyone comes to me for advice, and I wish they didn’t. I negotiate fees for other artists, give advice on property, on food, on clothes, on pensions. I can be standing on a corner in another country and someone will approach me for help.
For winning that elusive Oscar.
Between 2007 and 2016, I had a large white rabbit called WillyFred. I was happiest pressing my ear to his fur and hearing his heart beat.
Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Ann Dowd, Anna Friel, Anna Paquin, Ashley Jensen
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