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.
Loved you in Dallas.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
In a rehearsal just after graduating from drama college, I say my lines to an older actor. He pauses, turns to the director and says: “I’m sorry, but is she going to do it like that?”
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
Well, I’m always right.
People who think they’re always right.
I think that’s a thesis.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
Philippa Dunne, Edward Enninful, Siobhán McSweeney, Justin Hawkins, Jason Manford, Zack Polanski
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