The question
How close have you come to death?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.
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
As someone who made a difference.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
Gemma Whelan, John Waters, Eleanor Tomlinson, Lance Black, Sue Perkins, Dan Stevens
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