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  • I could tell your candor through the, through the video there, through the scent of my armpits, the pure panic that you're smelling underneath the sweater, Charlie's, you're about to take vanity fair's Proust questionnaire, you will be asked 35 questions in rapid succession in order to reveal your true nature.

  • Once a question has been read out, you'll have five seconds to answer before we move on Upon completion of all 35 questions, you will have a chance to reflect and even correct your answers.

  • Okay, now, I've got sweaty palms.

  • Now, all of a sudden, what is your idea of perfect happiness?

  • Summer?

  • What is your greatest fear?

  • It's so great!

  • I don't want to say it out loud.

  • What is the trait you most deplore in yourself, raising my voice?

  • What is the trait you most deplore in others dishonesty?

  • Which living person do you most admire?

  • Um my mom, what is your greatest extravagance traveling?

  • What's your current state of mind anxious?

  • What do you consider to be the most overrated virtue?

  • I've got a past.

  • On what occasion do you lie when I don't want uhh to hurt somebody's feelings?

  • What do you most dislike about your appearance?

  • They have big shoulders.

  • Which living person do you most despise?

  • I despise, wow, that's such strong wording.

  • Um mm Okay.

  • George Zimmerman.

  • What is the quality you most like in a man?

  • Uh confidence.

  • What is the quality you most like in a woman humor?

  • Yeah.

  • Which word or phrases do you most overuse?

  • You know who or what is the greatest love of your life?

  • My kids.

  • When and where were you?

  • Happiest last summer on vacation with my tribe?

  • Which talent would you most like to have?

  • Oh, hands down to be able to sing like bono.

  • If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

  • Smaller shoulders?

  • What do you consider your greatest achievement?

  • Again, I getting to be a mom to two beautiful girls.

  • If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be one of my dogs?

  • They haven't so good.

  • Where would you most like to live here?

  • What is your most treasured possession material?

  • The photographs that I've taken my whole life?

  • What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

  • Um Not feeling like yourself?

  • Not trusting yourself feeling wobbly.

  • What is your favorite occupation Creating in front of a 4th wall?

  • What is your most marked characteristic?

  • God, I don't know.

  • Being stupid, sometimes silly.

  • What do you most value in your friends?

  • Just them being forgiving.

  • Who are your favorite writers?

  • One of my favorites.

  • There's something nostalgic about her.

  • Writing for me is Alexandra Fuller.

  • Don't.

  • Let's go to the Dogs.

  • Tonight is one of my favorite favorite books.

  • Who is your hero of fiction?

  • I honestly don't think I have one.

  • Which historical figure.

  • Do you most identify with jane Goodall?

  • Who are your heroes in real life?

  • My mom, my daughter's.

  • What are your favorite names, Jackson?

  • In august?

  • What is it that you most dislike Funnel?

  • What is your greatest regret usually?

  • Not eating enough of that desert?

  • Mm.

  • How would you like to die so dark?

  • Um, my sleep.

  • I think I haven't tried it.

  • What is your motto?

  • Oh shit.

  • Yeah, I know.

  • What doesn't kill you?

  • Makes you stronger?

  • It's down and that completes the priest question.

  • Thank God.

  • Okay.

  • All right.

  • Were there questions that you found really difficult to answer?

  • Their?

  • Yeah, obviously.

  • Yeah, it's weird.

  • Like I just, some of them have just never thought of like the virtue one.

  • I don't know.

  • I've got a pass and then the historical figure jane Goodall.

  • It feels so wrong because I mean, I just admire her.

  • So maybe that I should have used her as my person, that I admire my living person that I admire.

  • I got to camp with her uh, in the congo with her chimps and we just like popped up tents and we made a fire and then we drank whiskey all night.

  • And she just, she just told me stories to like three in the morning and it was really, really special given the opportunity.

  • Would you want to play her in a biopic?

  • No, God, no, I'm sure there's tons of better people who could do that.

  • But she's a magical human.

  • She's one of those people that you meet and you just go, wow summer, you're perfect idea of happiness.

  • I think because I'm the happiest when it's when I'm in a warm climate, like I just think in general I might have sadd's disease, but I definitely am affected by like we had a beautiful day here this morning and now it's great and I can feel like my mood is like changing.

  • I think my overall machine works just on a happier note when I'm in a warm climate and there sunshine, you didn't like the wording of this question where I asked which living person do you most despise wow, that's such strong wording, you said George Zimmerman, I do not like that guy and I don't like how he's conducted himself after what happened to Trayvon martin and I I just find I find him I do I find everything about him despicable, that whole event so tragic and for him to kind of just have no regard or respect or just remorse is just it's this very, very hard for me, very hard for me.

  • I struggle with him a lot for the question, Who is your hero of fiction?

  • You didn't have an answer.

  • I honestly don't think I have one.

  • I didn't haunt solo.

  • Can I go back and answer that?

  • I don't know.

  • Yeah.

  • Let's go with him.

  • When I asked, how would you like to die, you said my sleep, I think.

  • Have you not contemplated the best way to die?

  • I don't think I've contemplated it in those terms.

  • Like the best way to die.

  • I mean, I think in general the best way would probably just be not knowing and fast like quick.

  • Like just getting it out of the way.

  • Has anybody said slow and tortuous?

  • Yes.

  • I figured, I figured, I mean, I don't want to assume, but I figured each of your dogs, would you come back at any single one of them?

  • Because my God, do they have a good life?

  • And there are many days that I walk through my house going like, I wish I was you right now.

  • Just lying on that bed.

  • You know, they get delicious meals.

  • I spoil them rotten.

  • They sleep on my white sheets.

  • Yes.

  • I have many times looked at them and thought, what a good life.

  • This would be a good, good way to go through life.

  • I could do this.

  • You said to when and where you were happiest last summer on vacation with my tribe.

  • Where were you on vacation?

  • And what made it so special?

  • Um, we traveled through a bit of um, Croatia, which was just magical.

  • I'm using the word magical a lot.

  • I'm sounding like a real royal.

  • Everything is so magical.

  • But it was, it was with a couple of families and tons of kids and people who I just really love and kind of consider my adopted family and yeah, you just can't take stuff like that for granted to be able to do something like that and to share that with other people who you love and Oh yeah, I've been thinking a lot about that vacation during quarantine when I asked, what is your greatest fear?

  • You said it's so great.

  • I don't want to say it out loud.

  • Can you elaborate?

  • It has to do with yeah.

  • My Children for sure.

  • That's all I will say because it's just too dark of a thought to even think about.

  • But that would be my greatest fear.

  • Yes.

  • For most overrated virtue.

  • You pass.

  • Yeah.

  • Well I don't really know how to answer that.

  • What would your answer be?

  • Um, I would probably cribbed mine from Stephen Colbert and say chastity.

  • Oh that's amazing.

  • Yes.

  • Oh yes.

  • I as a woman, I would agree.

  • Yes.

  • No, for sure.

  • Oh my God, that's did he say that I love him?

  • Do you think that these questions from Proust have revealed something about your inner self?

  • That may be the phrase I overuse, This magic word or phrase is magical, like maybe I didn't know that.

  • So that was eye opening.

  • Thank you.

  • Takes a french man to sometimes point out things you don't know about yourself.

  • Is he french?

  • He is french.

  • He sounds french.

  • Yes.

  • Okay Marcel Proust, yeah, that's french all the way.

  • Yeah.

I could tell your candor through the, through the video there, through the scent of my armpits, the pure panic that you're smelling underneath the sweater, Charlie's, you're about to take vanity fair's Proust questionnaire, you will be asked 35 questions in rapid succession in order to reveal your true nature.

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