Jenna Coleman: What keeps you awake at night?

What keeps you awake at night?

Originally asked

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

A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.

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

Recorded Jenna Coleman said elsewhere, not written here

Until I got curtains recently, it was the orange street light.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Dawn O’Porter

Perimenopausal anxiety, the terrible feeling of impending doom, something awful happening to my children, writing deadlines. Apart from that, I’m quite chilled.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2026 source ↗

Madhur Jaffrey Actress, cook, and TV host

Unfinished work and caffeine.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 February 2021 source ↗

Nadiya Hussain British television chef, baker and author

Trying to think of a recipe I’ve forgotten. I keep a notebook by my bed now.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 September 2016 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

When I feel that I am unprepared. Before a show I always have nightmares that I go out on stage naked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

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Question Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? Money & investment

A Matisse and my Leica camera.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗

Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight

There was a moment in my early 20s when I’d finished Emmerdale and didn’t know what was next. I drove from LA to San Francisco listening to Tracy Chapman and it felt like one of those pure moments of uncomplicated joy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗