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

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

Turning into my father.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

Danielle Steel Novelist

Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗

Adrian Scarborough British actor

Not dying before my wife and kids.

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 February 2022 source ↗

David Lynch Film director, screenwriter and painter

I’ve had this fear…the fear of being restricted—in every way.

Recorded Esquire, 1985 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 ↗

My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.

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

The tendency to withdraw into myself.

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

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