Stephanie Beacham: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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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.

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Stephanie Beacham

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

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My kids navigating the world as it is today – and daddy longlegs.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2026 source ↗

Being found out.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗

To lose the ability to do my work.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

Olivia de Havilland Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress

The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗

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Question How would you sum yourself up in three words? Identity & self

Actress, mother, grandmother.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

People who think they’re always right.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

Question What accomplishment matters most to you? Craft & work

Haven’t done it yet.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

I think that’s a thesis.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

Question What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

Loved you in Dallas.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

Question How would you describe what love feels like to you? Relationships

It is all there is.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

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