Samuel West: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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.

Recorded Samuel West said elsewhere, not written here

A DJ. I still do.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

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Dervla Kirwan

A forensic scientist.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗

Melissa McCarthy American actress

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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 January 2019 source ↗

Mario Molina Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995

For me, it was just a thrill. I just remember thinking at that time, this is the sort of thing I would like to do, if I could. I did not come from a family of scientists. My father was a lawyer, my older brother was a lawyer.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Sun Valley, Idaho, 29 June 1996 source ↗

Seann Walsh