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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
Scotland’s rugby captain. My hero Gavin Hastings was captain when he came to our school for a training session when I was 10 or 11. I met him and was blown away.
A sailor. I wanted to be in the Royal Navy like my grandad.
A tennis player.
I wanted to make women’s clothing. I also said that I wanted to be an artist; I don’t think I ever said I wanted to be an actress, but I remember thinking that would be fun.
I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
Trying to do a million things at once.
Nearly crashing into a train on one film, almost falling out of a hot-air balloon on another, narrowly avoiding getting knocked over by a taxi …
Not enough food in the fridge.
Things, situations, people evolve constantly. Nothing is static.
If mobile phones hadn’t been invented.
Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen, Ann Dowd, Anna Friel, Anna Paquin, Ashley Jensen
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