Originally asked
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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗
Scotland’s rugby captain. My hero Gavin Hastings was captain when he came to our school for a training session when I was 10 or 11. I met him and was blown away.
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
A mutant turtle ninja.
A hairdresser – I still want to be a hairdresser.
Any writer who thinks I’ve ruined their work in performance.
Dawn French, because I am sitting next to her and she says if I don’t say her, she will hurt me.
I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.
A birthday present I hoped would mean a lot to the person. I had their family history researched and a book made.
In my childhood, when I didn’t think about whether it was happy. It just was.
Listening to the last 10 minutes of the podcast S-Town. It is one of my favourite reminders of what life is truly all about.
Edward Fox, Riz Ahmed, Dominic West, Pauline McLynn, Julie Andrews, Samuel West
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