Jodie Whittaker: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Jodie Whittaker

English actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

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Rachel Whiteread English artist

I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2017 source ↗

Michelle Dockery British actress

Several haircuts and my belly-button piercing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2020 source ↗

Christy Turlington Burns American model

I might speed up a few details, but wouldn’t change anything, other than my dad still being here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Irish actor

The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗