Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 March 2025 source ↗
Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
A warm, frayed, soft blanket.
Having music for limbs.
Like safety, that you've got everything covered; no stress, no fear.
It’s the stuff about my appearance that sticks. I read I had a face like a crumpled napkin and teeth that could till a field.
I can be an overthinker and a vicious self-critic.
Early in my career I got really close to being one of the kids in the Narnia movie. I remember being crushed.
At the Mighty Hoopla festival, Kimberley and Nicola from Girls Aloud joined me on stage for a Girls Aloud song. I completely forgot the words.
Jill Nalder. Lydia West played her character in It’s a Sin. She was on the wards with nurses caring for patients who were dying [of Aids] when lots of people wouldn’t go near them.
Adjoa Andoh, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, Ann Dowd, Anna Friel
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