Joanne Froggatt: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Joanne Froggatt said elsewhere, not written here

I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

Robert Glenister English actor

That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

Kim Gordon American musician and artist

I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2020 source ↗

Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality

I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗

I would have been OK with feeling shy. In my teenage years, I thought being an actor meant that you had to be a little more performative.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 March 2024 source ↗