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 ↗
I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
Not trying something I really want to do.
Being found out.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
Not to take anything for granted.
Fine dining when it goes wrong.
Minding not being liked.
The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
Mental cruelty.
When I was a teenager, I laughed at a joke I didn’t understand. Whoever told the joke turned to me and said, “What are you laughing at?” Of course I didn’t know and he obviously knew I didn’t know. It was excruciating.
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