The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
I wanted to be in the WWF – the wrestling one, not the wildlife one.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗
I dreamed of being an artistic skater. And a nursery nurse.
I didn’t have a chance to want to be anything – I became an actor at 11.
I wanted my own ice-cream van and to be a lollipop lady.
Before I knew what being an actor was, I wanted to be one.
Doomscrolling on my phone.
Forest Green Rovers, my football team, getting relegated.
I would say something earnest like stopping the far right, but the truth is nothing keeps me awake at night.
Chlöe Swarbrick who is co-leader of the New Zealand Greens. She’s demonstrating the bold leadership that I look to do every single day.
Last summer with my boyfriend Richie. We had no plans – it was just wonderful.
I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
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