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.
Climate change.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 August 2026 source ↗
Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
To be abandoned.
That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
Not keeping off the last 5lbs.
“Let’s face it, you’re not Ingrid Bergman.” I was 19 and he was a potential boyfriend. My only thought at the time was: “I’m not?”
At the election of Joe Biden, thinking we were out of the woods. Wrong.
Don’t answer every question you’re asked.
Fifteen years ago, I totally forgot my lines on stage and was mortified. We skipped two pages of dialogue and took three minutes off the play – to the delight of the audience!
A dress designer.
Fiona Allen, Sophia Loren, Antonio Banderas, Meghann Fahy, Jim Kerr, Marina Abramović
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