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I’m a real coward about flying. I write loving texts to my nearest and dearest just in case …
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗
The question
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.
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Joseph Fiennes
English actor
That fear becomes too great.
Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
Running out of Molecule cologne.
Daphne Guinness
British socialite
Aggression without provocation or consequences.
J.K. Rowling
Novelist and screenwriter
The same thing Molly Weasley saw when she let a Boggart out of the locked cabinet in ‘Order of the Phoenix’ – my loved ones, dead. If, however, you are talking about a fear that concerns only me, it would be being buried alive. I’m not sure how a Boggart would represent that; perhaps turn into a coffin around me? Urgh.
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Better hearing.
Never making it into a Sondheim musical.
I don’t know, but I am quite happy returning to the universe.
As good enough.
One was seeing Warren Mitchell in Death of a Salesman when I was 18. I thought it was the most amazing piece of acting. The other was seeing my sister Sorcha (1) in Brian Friel's version of Three Sisters when I was 23. I'd trained as a musician, but I saw that and thought: "Well, now I know how to play Irina (2)." A few years later, I did.
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