Jane Fonda: What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Jane Fonda said elsewhere, not written here

That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

John Malkovich American actor

That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗

Jim Kerr Scottish singer and songwriter

I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2022 source ↗

James Norton English actor

Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗

Being on a plane that is about to crash.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2021 source ↗

The tendency to withdraw into myself.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗

My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 20 October 2009 source ↗

Being totally present and at peace in the moment—and knowing that my children and grandchildren are all right.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2009 source ↗

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