Theater, television, film, novels, autobiographies, radio, documentaries—there are few facets of media and creative expression that Stephen Fry has not yet mastered. (What’s next, performance art?) After adding his considerable energies and talents to keeping the Honresfield Library, an important, newly discovered priceless book collection, off the auction block, Fry is now returning to television. In The Dropout, a new Hulu series reimagining the saga of Elizabeth Holmes, Fry plays Ian Gibbons, the chief scientist at Theranos, whose suicide attempt, which happened the evening before he was required to testify in a lawsuit, precipitated his death from liver failure. Here, Fry shares his key components to the good life. —Ashley Baker
Airport: One landing strip, one shed of a terminal, one baggage carousel, one customs officer.
Bag: Whatever the opposite of Louis Vuitton might be.
Bedtime: Nine p.m.
Birthday: Best forgotten by all, please.
Boyfriend/girlfriend: My husband will last me to the end, I reckon.
Breakfast, weekday: I make a damned fine flat-white coffee, topped with a latte art fern.
Breakfast, weekend: Eggs Benedict.
Building: The Pantheon in Rome.
Car: Porsche Taycan, lucky me.
Cocktail: A skinny bitch. It’s just vodka and club soda: your maximum alcoholic bang for your minimum calorific buck.
Couple: Nick and Nora Charles.
Date: Medjool.
Diet: Oh, Lord, don’t start. There isn’t one I haven’t tried and failed at.
