Jim Broadbent: What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Jim Broadbent

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

It happens all the time, but childhood holidays on the North Norfolk coast were a kind of bliss.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Meghan Trainor American singer-songwriter

Whenever I’m with my kids.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2024 source ↗

Roland Mouret French fashion designer

When I am doing things that I feel I am not obliged to do.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2011 source ↗

Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗

Martin Freeman English actor

When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗

The Obamas are impressive.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2018 source ↗

Weeping with laughter.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 January 2018 source ↗

Their humor and that they are smarter than I, but not by too much.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 January 2018 source ↗

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