John Lithgow: 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.

John Lithgow

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Climate change, duh.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

Paul Merson English footballer and pundit

Going back to addiction.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2023 source ↗

Slugs. And planetary annihilation.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗

Stephen Fry Actor, writer and broadcaster

Being found out.

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

Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗

Creating something and feeling proud of it.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 October 2024 source ↗

Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

Conflict aversion.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

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