Imogen Poots: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would have been OK with feeling shy. In my teenage years, I thought being an actor meant that you had to be a little more performative.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 March 2024 source ↗

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Julie Hesmondhalgh English actress and narrator

Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗

Ronnie Wood English rock musician

All the hanging about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2017 source ↗

Adam Kay British comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician

I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗

Julian Clary English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter

My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗