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.
Falling onstage…or anywhere.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2024 source ↗
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.
Not enough food in the fridge.
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
My Sicilian impulsiveness.
A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
Filming Penny Dreadful for five months in the Republic of Ireland, sublime land of faeries and spontaneous song.
The trait that ignites my Sicilian impulsiveness.
Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.
Angela Griffin, Lily Tomlin, Fay Ripley, Omid Djalili, Rita Moreno, Willem Dafoe
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