Alex Lawther: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Alex Lawther said elsewhere, not written here

I would try and get to being comfortable with myself quicker.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗

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Felicity Jones British actress

I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗

Kim Gordon American musician and artist

I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2020 source ↗

Joseph Fiennes English actor

Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Corinne Bailey Rae

I wouldn’t change anything. When I was 29, my first husband died, so I learned a new way of thinking about life, which is: there are many things that you can’t control.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

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Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗

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Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗