The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Silly, loving and, as an Aries, passionate.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗
Passionate, mum, green.
Loyal, funny, driven.
Curious, suggestible, silly.
Hard-working, resilient, irritating.
When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
The last time I really sobbed was watching Daniel Radcliffe’s documentary about his stuntman on the Harry Potter movies [David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived].
Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar in Shoreditch, London.
My housemate, because I keep shrinking his jumpers in the wash.
When I was 17, my friends and I threw a fashion show for a breast cancer charity. Breast cancer is something my mum went through when I was 14, so prevention is very close to my heart. Our singer, who was performing during the fashion show, dropped out at the last minute so I had to step in. It’s on video, and my sister always brings it up.
My mum [the actor, Sally Dynevor] in so many ways. She is the real definition of a superwoman to me.
Richard Eyre, Bobbi Brown, Kerry Godliman, Nuala McGovern, Romola Garai, Jon Sopel
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