The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?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.
I wanted to be in the circus.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗
First something medical, then, without any doubt, an artist.
I wanted to make women’s clothing. I also said that I wanted to be an artist; I don’t think I ever said I wanted to be an actress, but I remember thinking that would be fun.
Huckleberry Finn.
My brother Joe, he’s nine years older than me.
People having really loud conversations on their phones in public places.
Scruffy, infuriating and kind.
I lived in Cape Town, and I was spotted on the street and signed up by a modelling agency. I did about three shoots before I realised I hate having my photograph taken and I like food.
The very first day that I was filming Top Gear, for which I was so unqualified because I’d only ever driven a Fiat Uno. I got into a DB7 Vantage Volante outside the Aston Martin factory, put my foot on the accelerator and bunny-hopped across the gravel because I’d forgotten to take the handbrake off.
The first time I stood on top of the hill that I now live on, in 2007.
My husband, Ludo, for not really getting why war movies are fun to watch.
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