Romola Garai: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Romola Garai

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

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Jane Asher English actress and author

I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗

Mike Wallace American journalist

I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

Robert De Niro Actor

My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗

Scott Mills English radio DJ and television presenter

Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2022 source ↗

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Question What would you most want to leave your children? Death & what remains

A sense of optimism.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Question When were you most embarrassed? Failure & regret

I have a deep-rooted fear of being in trouble. I once tried to sneak into the back of a photography exhibition with my husband when one of our kids was in a pushchair. We’d arrived late and he suggested we go in through the gift shop and see the last room. As we poked our heads round the door, the security guard noticed us. I shouted, “That man’s trying to get in!”, then ran away.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗