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.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
I’m not fond of snakes.
To be abandoned.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
An earthquake in Peru forced me and a young man into the street, where he had to introduce me to his family at three in the morning.
Mum, because I never really knew how to cope with her alcoholism.
Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.
The Doctor in Doctor Who. I still do.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
Nancy Pelosi, Zack Polanski, Ed Koch, Bob Schieffer, Jon Sopel, Malala Yousafzai
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