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.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
Not actualising my full potential.
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
Figuratively doing nothing.
The king – because he’s been through quite a bit and I think he’s come out the other side brilliantly.
Nothing at all.
I was about six years old in a market square in Italy and my dad said, “Oh, those shorts would look perfect on you.” So he whipped my trousers off and I hadn’t got any knickers on.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
As a perfectly decent bloke.
My first wife, because I left her.
Mark Radcliffe, James Taylor, Roger Ebert, Allison Janney, Stockard Channing, Jane Fonda
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