Oti Mabuse
South African dancer
Too much energy.
What keeps you awake at night?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Originally asked
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A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Worry about work: it’s a precarious business being an actor.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 196 →An exciting idea. I usually write for an hour or so, and then I go to sleep.
Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?
I would say something earnest like stopping the far right, but the truth is nothing keeps me awake at night.
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View profile →I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.
For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.
A watch that begins with an R.
Simply as a man who put a smile on the face of everyone he met.
Watching the film The Iron Giant slays me every time.
Having a 23-year acting career with no qualifications.
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