Viggo Mortensen
American actor
Right now. The past has gone.
When were you happiest?
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When the war was over—whichever war that was.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 1995 source ↗
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Harry Redknapp
English football player and manager
When I met [my wife] Sandra. I was coming up 17. We met at the Two Puddings, a dance hall in Stratford.
Craig Revel Horwood
Australian-British choreographer and director
When I got my first professional dance job: West Side Story in Melbourne in 1983.
The early days of motherhood. We lived in a sweet little bungalow in LA that had a pool. We threw lots of parties. We had a cute dog and a mad Siamese. Trump had never been president, we’d never heard of coronavirus, Claire’s Accessories was still going strong. Good times.
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