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.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
I am not afraid.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
People who think they’re always right.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
Haven’t done it yet.
I think that’s a thesis.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
Pauline McLynn, Frank McCourt, Joyce Carol Oates, Father John Misty, Rafael Nadal, Neil Patrick Harris
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