Character Interview with Nicholas Powell- Chinese Walls

How do you feel about your family, now that you’re an adult?

Grateful that I’ve been able to give them a very comfortable home and background, and to see the children get a goodish start in life.

What do you want from life?

I thought I knew that it was career success and fulfillment, but in fact I’ve been discovering that this is not enough. Exciting as career highs can be, I really want a relationship that more truly reflects my inner feelings.


If you were granted three wishes, what would you ask for?

• Happy and secure lives for my wife and children
• An authentic relationship with another man, which I don’t have to hide from anyone
• Material security balanced by emotional fulfillment

What three things would you take to a Desert Island?

• My new ‘husband’ Daniel (if that were allowed)
• The collected works of Christopher Isherwood
• A shaving kit with a year’s supply of razor blades


What, in the outside world, is preventing you from getting it?

My husband? Social and professional disapproval

What, in yourself, is preventing you from getting it?

Anxiety at losing what I have

What must happen before you overcome this?

A complete reckoning with all the people in my life and clarity with my work colleagues

In your relationship with others, how are you different with family than you are with friends?

I act the usual heterosexual, rather macho father and husband with my family but am much more confessional and intimate with my friends.

Why?

I choose to compartmentalize my life and keep one part ‘secret’ from the other

How do you fall in love? At first sight? Over a long period?

At first sight

What parts of loving come easy for you? Hard?

Sharing jobs and responsibilities. Allowing someone else to take the lead

How do you decide if you can trust someone? Experience with others? with this person? First impressions? Intuition? Do you test the person somehow? Or are you just generally disposed to trust or not to trust?

I am not disposed to trust at first sight, there is always a voice inside that says wait and see, test it out, don’t jump to conclusions. But another part of me is very trusting and loving.

When you walk into a room, what do you notice first? Second?

Whether there are friendly faces there. Who is the host or leader.


When you walk into a room, what do you expect people to notice about you?

Confidence and charm.

Describe yourself to me.

Decisive, a firm hold on events, a good strategic brain, a readiness to assess all angles of a situation, loyal over time, but with a reserve and sometimes even diffidence about my achievements/reputation. I consider myself a bit of a Renaissance man, who - as a gentleman - should wear his talents lightly.

Is one sense more highly developed than another? (Are you more visual, or audial, etc, or do you rely on the famous sixth sense?)

I am very instinctive and like to read body language as part of my strategic advisor/public presentation job

Did you turn out the way you expected? The way your parents predicted?

In some professional and family ways, yes very much so. But not the inner core of me perhaps.

What really moves you, or touches you to the soul?

Beauty, male beauty and youthful charm, high intelligence (which often supoersdes the importance of looks for me), the excitement of other cultures and foods, religions etc.
What's the one thing you have always wanted to do but didn't/couldn't/wouldn't? What would happen if you did do it?

I always wanted to make love with another man on a regular basis. I would probably blossom as a human being.

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