Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim recurring question in The Guardian's Q&A series.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
I’ve never seen Star Wars (I know!) and on my first day of a recent job, I’m sitting next to this very friendly actor. I ask if he has much experience with motion capture. He says, “Yes.” I say “Oh great! What have you worked on?” He says, “I’m Mark Hamill.”
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
On radio, I once said “anal” instead of “angel”.
When I was 11, I went down a water slide and my bottoms didn’t go with me. Everyone saw my bare white butt.
I spent an advent in my late teens throttling turkeys.
That it’s impossible to persuade other people of the value of the lessons that life has taught you.
The unguiltiest pleasure.
I took the whole family to live in the Basque Country for a year. My children and I have a hereditary blood condition so I took out a health insurance policy. I’m still furious that none of us so much as stubbed a toe.
So many. All childcarers and most primary teachers.
My inability to say no.
John Simm, Minnie Driver, Romesh Ranganathan, Jack Whitehall, Liev Schreiber, Pauline McLynn
Search the directory for somebody in particular.