The question
What do you fear most?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.
Dying alone and in pain.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗
As an Italian, tinned spaghetti. As a child, I was once served it at someone’s house. It was quite frightening.
Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
A beautiful meal and a glass of wine with my favorite people and lots of laughter ringing around the table.
Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
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