The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?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.
Not getting to the point.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
I am unable to use scissors.
How long do we have?
I’m embarrassed when I get people’s names wrong.
I’ve learned to give myself a break. Everyone should.
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
A receding hairline.
My partner was doing a play in Hong Kong last year and I went to visit him, and I bought him a beautiful teacup. But I didn’t look at the price tag before I took it to the till and it was £100, the most expensive teacup imaginable.
I would try and get to being comfortable with myself quicker.
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.
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.
Jim Kerr, Betty White, Juliet Stevenson, Sarah Hadland, Marina Abramović, Hamza Yassin
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