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.
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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗
Being on a plane that is about to crash.
Not being able to work.
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
Nuclear holocaust.
Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.
If my children remember me as fondly as I remember my mum, that would be a treat.
Minding not being liked.
Fine dining when it goes wrong.
Not to take anything for granted.
The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
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