Losing my makeup bag.
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.
Devika Girish, The New York Review of Books, 11 April 2021 source ↗
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The same thing Molly Weasley saw when she let a Boggart out of the locked cabinet in ‘Order of the Phoenix’ – my loved ones, dead. If, however, you are talking about a fear that concerns only me, it would be being buried alive. I’m not sure how a Boggart would represent that; perhaps turn into a coffin around me? Urgh.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
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I tried to get funding to shoot this film and couldn’t—nobody wanted to touch it, you know?
I prefer not to compartmentalize my life.
I finished it only to get on set and start re-writing everything.
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