Bintou Keita: What is your greatest fear?

The question

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.

Bintou Keita

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General; head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I don't believe in that. I think we are bringing who we are in the work.

Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

Niamh Cusack Irish actress

I’m a real coward about flying. I write loving texts to my nearest and dearest just in case …

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗

Olivia de Havilland Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress

The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗

Ardal O'Hanlon Irish comedian and actor

People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗

Romesh Ranganathan English actor and comedian

My children ending up anything like me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2024 source ↗