I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
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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.
I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 April 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
Naming my greatest fear, because then I’ll have to admit it, won’t I?
Losing my mind.
More from Johnny Flynn
View profile →When I left drama school, I thought I was going to work at the Royal Court and tell stories about political injustice. I got cast in ITV murder mysteries.
When I was about eight, by a river waiting for my dad to finish fishing, eating a Mars bar, drinking a can of Coke and listening to Beat It by Michael Jackson on my Walkman. I remember feeling I couldn’t be happier.
Control freakery in the kitchen.
Not feeling like you have to be anywhere else.
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