Damian Lewis: 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 Damian Lewis said elsewhere, not written here

Losing my memory.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Rafael Nadal Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024

I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗

Rita Wilson American actress, singer, and producer

Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗

Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.

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

A Reform government.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗

Driving golf balls into the cricket pavilion on summer evenings in my pajamas.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗

Party, good friends, lots of dancing.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 16 March 2017 source ↗

Selfishness. People who block junctions in their car.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗

Sohana Collins. A little girl I know who’s extremely brave.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗

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