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.
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
Any misfortune involving our kids. Also, I have recurring nightmares that involve being chased by people or being attacked by scary animals.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
I can’t say it.
I once walked up to Harriet Walter while she was having lunch on her own because I thought I knew her, and then when I got up to the table I realised I didn’t know her, I just recognised her because she was Harriet Walter.
Another actress once said to me, “I’ve told you huge lies to make you feel good about yourself.” I’m not going to say who.
To believe my eyes and not my ears.
Our friends are sad and miss us for a bit but, hopefully, they find other people at the party.
My friend Fritha Goodey wouldn’t have committed suicide.
Knowledge seeping into adventure, with a thin layer of giddiness, hysterical laughter and loss of control.
Malala Yousafzai, Eugene Levy, Dawn O’Porter, Pauline McLynn, Nigel Havers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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