The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That I am a terrible actor.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
There will always be so many who might say, “Ah, he’s a politician masquerading as an archbishop.” Politics is so all-pervasive, and in my theology, obviously, all of life belongs to God, and you don’t have compartments, this is your economic life, this is your political life, this is your religious life. Religion encompasses all of those. But yes, I wouldn’t myself have said I was setting out to be a political animal.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.
A forensic scientist.
About five years ago, I was in a play that was an unmitigated disaster. I had to rally the troops and go out every night.
A little bit more self-confidence.
Procrastination.
At my mother’s funeral last year.
Ed Harris, Bear Grylls, Toby Stephens, Zack Polanski, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Graydon Carter
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