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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2017 source ↗
I thoroughly enjoyed high school in Nairobi: it was before everybody had a camera on their phone. I experimented with fashion and hairstyles that I am glad I don’t have any record of.
When I turned 30, married and had a place in Brixton. My flailing twenties were over, though the flailing continues.
The day I passed my driving test, at 17.
When I had my first kid and when I had my first big success with I Gotta Feeling.
I didn’t have a chance to want to be anything – I became an actor at 11.
Still being an actor after 36 years.
Our campervan. It’s fully kitted out, sleeps four and lowers down, so we can get in and out easily.
As an actor who happens to be short.
Imelda Staunton, Joss Whedon, Marianne Faithfull, Joseph Fiennes, Joanne Froggatt, Ethan Hawke
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