Rebecca Lucy Taylor: Which trait in yourself do you like least? — FLAPSS

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Which trait in yourself do you like least?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

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Rebecca Lucy Taylor

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My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

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I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 October 2025 source ↗

Charles Collingwood

I talk too much.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗

Being overly critical.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2023 source ↗

Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2014 source ↗

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Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Question What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

I was recently made to feel that it’s my mental health that’s the problem and not the system.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Question What would you most want to leave your children? Death & what remains

High self-esteem.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Julie Hesmondhalgh – she’s the kindest, brightest, most truthful woman. She’s so talented, works hard, cares about the right things, puts her energy in the right places. I adore her.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

I’d like all my effort noticed.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

Most of the people I dated between 23 and 33. It feels crazy to me that I ever thought that I could be anyone’s girlfriend before I figured out the things I’ve now figured out.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

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