Romola Garai: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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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.

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Romola Garai

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Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

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Michael Douglas

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗

Losing my mind.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Mike Skinner English rapper

That I might have to do a normal job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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Question When were you most embarrassed? Failure & regret

I have a deep-rooted fear of being in trouble. I once tried to sneak into the back of a photography exhibition with my husband when one of our kids was in a pushchair. We’d arrived late and he suggested we go in through the gift shop and see the last room. As we poked our heads round the door, the security guard noticed us. I shouted, “That man’s trying to get in!”, then ran away.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Question Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought? Money & investment

My short film, Scrubber, in 2011. At that time in my life it seemed easier to pay for it myself than to apply for funds.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Question How would you sum yourself up in three words? Identity & self

Confident, stressed, greedy.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Question Which book do you still mean to read, and why has it stayed on your list? Taste & recommendation

I’ve never read any Proust.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

Realising I was never going to make it big in professional swing dance.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2013 source ↗

Question If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

I’d probably take out a lot of my 20s, when I was rude, annoying and a brat.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

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