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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I haven’t grown up.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
A veterinarian.
A ballet dancer, but it changed to being an actress when I got put in a school play.
Successful like my two uncles, who were paper industry magnates.
First I wanted to be in the circus, then a tap dancer, then prime minister. I have failed at all three.
The inability to do things for myself.
My relationship with drugs.
Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
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