The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?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.
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An artist, an interior designer and a vet.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗
To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
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.
An actress. I started when I was 13 at theatre school. My first assembly, Tom and I were sat next to each other.
To work in a dry cleaner’s.
Quiet, noisy, androgynous.
As a great songwriter.
Not being in pain – I have back problems and had shoulder surgery just before Christmas and there isn’t a day that goes by when I am not in pain.
Schemes. I hate schemers.
Nothing. I love getting old – I love the freedom it allows you.
Going on stage and saying, “Good evening Lyon!” I was in Marseille.
Emma Bunton, Chris Bryant, Ronnie Wood, Mark Bonnar, Björn Ulvaeus, Jessica Raine
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