The question
How close have you come to death?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Horse riding in a steep canyon in Los Angeles. A couple of paparazzi had hidden under camouflage blankets and when a horse sees a lens, he thinks it’s the eye of a predator. My horse flipped out. When he landed, I ended up on his neck; that was pretty close.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 May 2021 source ↗
At each of my theatre premieres.
I don’t know. I prefer it that way.
When I was five and the doctors walked in and said to my mum: “I am not sure if you will be taking him home.”
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Heart explosion.
To anyone I have lost touch with. It happened purely by accident as life took over.
Michelle Obama. Her girls were massive fans of So You Think You Can Dance and we were invited to the White House for the Easter egg hunt. She was even more brilliant than you imagine, and we bonded over a love of Beyoncé.
Art. I recently bought a Sean Scully painting, I have a Damien Hirst, a Tracey Emin, a Polly Morgan snake and a couple of Jonathan Yeos.
Marc Almond, Isabelle Huppert, Liev Schreiber, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Miriam Margolyes, Rory Kinnear
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