The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Someone said that I had a laugh like Jimmy Carr.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
An English teacher said, “You’ll never make anything of yourself.”
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
Edward Bond, the playwright, said I was like a turd flowing on the effluent of British culture.
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
I woke up this morning thinking maybe I don’t want to be an actor any more, then I had breakfast and I thought: actually, no, I really like being an actor.
I would try and get to being comfortable with myself quicker.
Mistaking shyness for not having anything to say.
Ponderous, over thinking.
You can only do one thing at a time.
Last year, during four days in January, when I directed Rhoda, my second short film, in a tiny house in Camberwell with Juliet Stevenson and Emma D’Arcy.
Juliet Stevenson, Sarah Hadland, Munroe Bergdorf, Hamza Yassin, Bryn Terfel, Stephen K Amos
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