Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
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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.
Wasting my life.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗
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My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
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When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.
That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
That there are more important things than being right.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
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