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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗
When I was seven I wanted to be a nun. When I was eight, I wanted to be a boy so that I could be anything I wanted. Also, of course, I wanted to be Samantha in Bewitched.
I wanted to be in the circus.
I always wanted to be a singer.
A detective, a train driver on the underground and Leyton Orient’s centre forward.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
Dominic West, Anna Paquin, Oti Mabuse, Felicity Jones, Ralph Ineson, Katherine Parkinson
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