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.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
Running out of Molecule cologne.
Losing my family in some way.
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Your lowest moment is temporary.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
Curious, thoughtful and kind.
I had a casting director once stop me in the middle of an audition and tell me to go wash my face in the bathroom because she felt my makeup was too distracting, but I wasn’t wearing any. It was mortifying. It felt like a power play and I was so young, I didn’t know what to do.
Someone to clean my apartment.
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