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.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
The loss of a child.
I can’t say it.
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
Not getting into heaven.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
Where do I begin?
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
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