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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2017 source ↗
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
My failures have taught me more than the successes, so not much.
My relationship with drugs.
Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.
On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.
Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
The End by the Beatles.
I did a crap impersonation of JK Rowling a few years ago. Sorry, JK. Can this apology put me on a casting list for your next mega-franchise?
Rose McGowan, Riz Ahmed, Isla Fisher, Joanne Froggatt, Cybill Shepherd, Ralf Little
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