Richard Wilson
Scottish actor and theatre director
It’s up to them.
What would you like to be remembered for?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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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.
In a photo album of just one family.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
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Sonya Yoncheva
Opera singer
Oh, yes, absolutely. I have two children, and often I think about them and how when I’m gone, they will be here listening to an old CD of mine, thinking, “At least I can I can hear her voice.” I think this is very charming. It’s very nice. And then, of course, I also think about the other generations of opera singers coming behind me… It’s so important that they can have a real testimony of how it was in our ears. I think that what stands the test of time is really the memory of people hearing us singing somewhere.
Billy Ocean
British singer
As somebody who tried.
Gemma Whelan
English actress
It would be lovely if people thought I was kind.
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View profile →I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
That I can’t write.
The Prince and Princess of Wales for not knowing when to leave their home.
When I was a child, a member of staff at Wood End Assessment Centre [a former children’s home in Wigan] bellowed: “He copies them poems off of Bob Marley records.”
Also my most triumphant: 2017 at the Royal Court. Julie Hesmondhalgh reads my psychologist’s report over two hours. Every excruciating intimate word of it. Extreme verbatim theatre. One night only.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
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