Mariska Hargitay: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Originally asked

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

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Mariska Hargitay said elsewhere, not written here

The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist

People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗

David Hasselhoff American actor, singer, and television personality

Rudeness and racism.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Arrogance and a lack of respect for others.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2012 source ↗

Willful ignorance.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Sharks. The ones in the ocean.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗

My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 January 2024 source ↗

When our family was complete.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗

People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗

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