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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 May 2018 source ↗
Collecting glasses in a Lancashire pub. Try to take a pint glass with a millimetre of foam still in it, and you get a lit cigarette on the back of your hand.
I used to clean the ovens in a bakery. Brillo pad and poison.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
It’s also one of the best jobs I’ve done, but two hours in, when everyone’s pissed and ignoring you, hosting the Brit awards can be a tough gig.
After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
I fell off a ladder, landed on my back, got up and was fine.
My mum, because she smuggled me into the National Youth Theatre during summer time when my dad didn’t want me to be an actor, and she’s seen everything I’ve done.
A snazzy coffee machine that grinds beans and steams milk.
At boarding school, I was unable to get the main part in Hamlet, so I put on a production of The Homecoming with my friends. The teachers came to see it and said they didn’t know I had it in me. It felt very good.
Joanne Froggatt, Cybill Shepherd, Michael Flatley, Ralf Little, Adjoa Andoh, Kwame Kwei-Armah
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