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This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 May 2018 source ↗
I’d say, “I’m going to be a doctor.” I don’t know why I changed. I know my dad had something to do with it.
A hairdresser – I still want to be a hairdresser.
An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
A mortician – I worked in a funeral home when I was 14.
At each of my theatre premieres.
A good film, a good book, a good script, a long phone call.
Fortunately, I’ve often been happy, which you wouldn’t necessarily guess from the roles I play. I’ve always been very happy to have my children with me, particularly on location. My daughter was in in London when I played Mary Stuart at the National Theatre.
Martin Kemp, Charlotte Church, Alan Cumming, Patricia Hodge, Dan Stevens, Fay Ripley
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