Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗
We live in a fearful age: Brexit, Covid, global warming, cancel culture, war in Ukraine. Add in pancreatic cancer and you find me in an advanced and complex state of anxiety.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
I’m a real coward about flying. I write loving texts to my nearest and dearest just in case …
Poetry. I start getting into a float state, and write stanzas and couplets in the middle of the night.
My children obviously, but also my work.
Great. It feels wonderful – like a firework going off in your stomach.
Gossip and backstabbing.
I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
As a force for good and a champion of the underdog.
Robert Carlyle, Niamh Cusack, Robert De Niro, Eugene Levy, Andrea Bocelli, Judy Blume
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