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.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2014 source ↗
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
Having no way of earning money.
I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
His name is Barry Humphries but you may be more familiar with him from his character, Dame Edna, a self-styled international superstar. I’d say he’s hitting pretty close to the genius description because back in the 1950s, he asked cultural questions that others neglected to ask or even consider.
In the series I’ve got massive slabs of dialogue so I had to understand the scientific principles involved and then fake it to credibility.
I also like dogs and cryptic crosswords.
A lot of my decisions are made by instinct – you have a hunch.
I dreamt of being an astronomer, I had a series of How and Why Books on the planets and the stars.
I wanted my children to grow up in Australia, and if I have anything to pass on to them as a parent as a mentor, it is my own experiences of having grown up there, and shaped a career there.
Craig Charles, Leelee Kimmel, Carrie Fisher, Felicity Jones, Johnny Flynn, Eugene Levy
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