What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jack Whitehall said elsewhere, not written here
I was hellbent on being a Thunderbird. I was devastated when my parents finally told me it was a fictional organisation. Ruined my 18th.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

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Mo Farah British track and field athlete
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗
Patricia Hodge English actress
A ballet dancer, but it changed to being an actress when I got put in a school play.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 September 2018 source ↗
Martin Sheen American actor
Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗

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