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.
Immunity to cruelty.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
Losing my mind.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
The years of self-doubt.
Holding a large and fragile glass object in a very dangerous environment.
An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
More time with my boys.
Telling a story to my son about my brother.
Empathetic, humble and strong.
Roger Ebert, Rose Tremain, Charles Dance, Tim Peake, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Whoopi Goldberg
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