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.
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2024 source ↗
I don’t think about my greatest fear.
Turning into my father.
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
Losing out on a role, any role. I get so invested. I can take rejection, but only when useful feedback is given.
Relief and an achy feeling in your cheeks from smiling.
Endless acting jobs.
A few of my exes.
Narcissism. And people coughing on me in public.
A horse-riding accident when I was about 15.
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