JM
As a complex and brilliant man.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗
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How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
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Griff Rhys Jones
British actor and comedian
As a charming, helpful, solicitous, generous, loving, carefree and constantly funny companion, lover and father. Some hope of that.
Gemma Whelan
English actress
It would be lovely if people thought I was kind.
Daphne Guinness
British socialite
As a force for good and a champion of the underdog.
Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
More from Jonathan Rhys Meyers
View profile →Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.
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