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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not having my own chatshow. Yet!
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Roger Allam
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Not being active in my own desires.
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That my first play, Red Velvet, took so many years to be done. It took me seven years to write and then five years to get to the stage.
Not playing James Bond.
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When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
Something that you can’t describe or put in a box. It changes daily and surprises you when you least expect.
A pair of Balenciaga boots. They were extortionate, but that has to be at least 10 years ago and I still wear them.
As a nice person who always put others before myself. I’d also like my own posthumous tartan.
I had a car crash not long after passing my test, driving mates to a club on a Saturday night. Thankfully, everyone was OK – as was my dad about his car, which was a write-off.
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