The question
How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As a nice old man.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
As Naughty Grandma – you know, the one who is always causing mischief at Christmas.
A good listener.
I’d like all my effort noticed.
Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
A detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
Needing order always.
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
Picking up RAF pilots’ parachute packs and gear they dropped off in a pile.
Simon Boas, Richard Coles, Niamh Cusack, Sonny Rollins, Robert Carlyle, Andrea Bocelli
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