Sofia Coppola
American filmmaker and actress
Making films exactly how I wanted.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Identity & self
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The coming out letter I wrote in Tales Of The City – it seems to be the thing that’s going to last after I’m gone.
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Daniel Mays
British actor
Bringing two kids into the world, but my interrogation scene in Line Of Duty comes a close second. It was 12 minutes long and, without question, the hardest passage of dialogue I’ve had to learn.
Mark Gatiss
British actor and writer
Sherlock being such a worldwide phenomenon.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
Participating in a transformative movement that advocated human dignity and changed America forever.
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As a kind man who told good stories.
My friend Ian McKellen, who has an extraordinary record as an actor and a gay activist.
I would have come out earlier.
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