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, 24 February 2018 source ↗
J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
A surgeon. I studied pre-med in Holy Cross College for four years and then I went to acting school.
An elevator operator.
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
I am pretty happy right now. I have just got back from a dog walk. I have loads of nice work coming out. I am feeling pretty chipper.
Leeds United signing a decent striker.
Steven Spielberg. I can’t think of many people who have improved the human experience as much as that one man.
Diamonds for my wife.
My kids, for the jokes. Some of them are pretty bad.
On New Year’s day I was so hungover my hair actually hurt. I lay on the sofa with my daughter and we watched The Muppets for two hours and I cried with laughter.
Dawn O'Porter, Toyah Willcox, Sofia Coppola, Joanne Froggatt, Hayley Squires, Shirley MacLaine
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