The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
One night in Cats, I missed my footing and nearly plunged more than 30ft. As if by magic, the stage manager’s hand appeared and winched me from certain death.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗
A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
I’ve dodged a couple of bullets in dodgy war zones, but I suspect the closest I’ve come to death was a reckless, drunken brush with a waltzer at a student funfair. It nearly chopped me in half.
When I was drinking, there were many times when I was out for the night and didn’t come back for a week.
Being offered a lift by James Acaster.
Watching tennis.
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien. And my headstone should read: “Game, set and match.”
To be working still.
I’m happy: I have a wonderful career and great friends.
Maybe That’s Your Problem, a musical about premature ejaculation. It closed after only 18 performances.
If I have upset someone, I have said sorry to him or her at the time.
Laurence Fox, Brendan Gleeson, Felicity Jones, John Malkovich, Adrian Edmondson, Paapa Essiedu
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