Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
My complete lack of organisation that affects all part of my life – my living space, my being in touch with people, everything. I am a walking shitshow.
My default will always be to go for the worst-case scenario and that is something that I am unlearning.
Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.
My children obviously, but also my work.
Poetry. I start getting into a float state, and write stanzas and couplets in the middle of the night.
I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
I wanted to be in the army or a spy in the intelligence service.
Discipline. Also to have a goal, however small and whatever it may be.
As a force for good and a champion of the underdog.
Michelle Collins, Henry Winkler, John Lithgow, Jon Snow, John Grisham, Father John Misty
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