I’ve not always been great friend material. I’ve tried to get better at that, so to be remembered as reliable by a few would be great.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗
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.
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I’ve not always been great friend material. I’ve tried to get better at that, so to be remembered as reliable by a few would be great.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗
As someone who loved her family and friends, worked hard, got successful and had a lovely time in the process.
Through rose-tinted spectacles.
Just being remembered at all would be great.
As a good father.
Putting chocolate mousse in my agent’s face. Somebody had done it to me – that thing where they go, “Smell this, it smells funny”, and then they put it in your nose. A year later I was in this French restaurant with a very 1980s-style dessert trolley and, before I knew it, I had a bowl of chocolate mousse in front of me. And my agent went, “What’s that smell?”, and it felt impossible not to … I immediately felt awful and tried to apologise. He, of course, said that he found it funny. But I knew he didn’t.
A running accident when I was 14 or 15. I fainted but I was a bit of a jester and they thought I was taking the piss, so I was left for a bit. I woke up in hospital.
Having regrets and not knowing what to do about them.
You reach a certain point in life and suddenly know a lot of dead people, and I’ve noticed you don’t stop getting to know people who are dead. Those relationships continue and I like that.
A movie. Does it have a name? It might do.
It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
Neil Gaiman, Clive Myrie, Clare Bailey Mosley, Joanne Froggatt, Iris Apfel, Meera Syal
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