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.
Curious, thoughtful and kind.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
Passionate, mum, green.
Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
Impatient, ambitious and happy.
I had a casting director once stop me in the middle of an audition and tell me to go wash my face in the bathroom because she felt my makeup was too distracting, but I wasn’t wearing any. It was mortifying. It felt like a power play and I was so young, I didn’t know what to do.
When I realised that I could get myself through anything that came my way.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
An inability to be authentic.
Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
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