Shaun White: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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

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Recorded Shaun White said elsewhere, not written here

The first video game I was in. I was 13 and video games were the world for me, and my character was awful. He had this terrible orange 'fro, his voice was a man's and he was slow and didn't turn well – nothing like me.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 March 2010 source ↗

Others on this question

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Donald Sutherland Canadian actor

The behaviour of those dogs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2012 source ↗

Pauline McLynn Irish character actress and author

Actors live in a constant state of disappointment. I’ll never be happy with what I’ve done.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2023 source ↗

Johnny Flynn British actor and musician

When I left drama school, I thought I was going to work at the Royal Court and tell stories about political injustice. I got cast in ITV murder mysteries.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 April 2022 source ↗

Camille Paglia American feminist academic and critic