Tracey Ullman: How close have you come to dying?

The question

How close have you come to dying?

Originally asked

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

A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

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

Tracey Ullman

British and American actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2017 source ↗

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Robert Carlyle Scottish actor

I was on a plane in India and I thought it was going to crash. It was an old, rickety thing. It was pre-children - I wouldn't do it now.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗

Paapa Essiedu British actor

In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2023 source ↗

Warren Zevon Songwriter and musician

This is a lot harder for you than it is for me. If you had gone to bed as many nights as I did in the old days knowing that you had taken so much stuff that could kill you and not knowing if you would wake up, this is not as shocking as you think.

Recorded The New York Times Magazine, 26 January 2003 source ↗

Sarah Millican English comedian