Are there any genuinely normal, well-adjusted celebrities
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Anonymous
| Any? |
Anonymous
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As well-adjusted as you and me, sure. Everyone has problems, OP. It's more work for a celebrity to fly under the radar, and it's all too easy to edit video clips to make someone look stupid and weird. You could look stupid and weird with the right video editing of your life! Same for me. So don't be so quick to judge when paparazzis take photos or a celebrity says something unwise on social media. Humans are inherently flawed. You can't be picture and word perfect all the time.
The most intelligent celebrities work very hard to live secretive private lives and only present a polished version of themselves to the public, to protect themselves and their families. |
Anonymous
| Doubtful. The kind of person who pursues that sort of constant visibility and fame isn’t well adjusted with good values. I’m not sure why that isn’t obvious. It’s like running for president—the kind of person who thinks they should rule over everyone else isn’t well adjusted with good values. The megalomaniacs, narcissists, borderline personalities, and pathologically avaricious among us do better in the limelight. You don’t want those people hanging around the office and they typically cause chaos in normal settings. The well regulated, securely attached, high values people of the world do better in private and mundane pursuits. Both types of people have their place in the world. |
Anonymous
| Yeah. In some countries, the entertainment industry is not just about looking hot, and many celebrities don't even use social media. You don't hear about them because that's the point. |
Anonymous
| Daniel Radcliffe seems remarkably hardworking and stable for a former child actor. The British actors are generally more grounded in the artistic work rather than the celebrity. |
Anonymous
| Jennifer Garner, other than her ex husband drama. |
Anonymous
Right. Cillian Murphy and Daniel Day-Lewis come to mind also. DDL is a little bit odd though. |
Anonymous
Lol, no. But it's a testament to her and her publicity team that you think this. |
Anonymous
| Isn't Jodie Foster? Hope there isn't something wack about her |
Anonymous
| Keanu Reeves? |
Anonymous
please do go on |
Anonymous
Agree with this but I also think proximity to Hollywood, and the age at which you became famous, play a role. I remember watching this video and thinking about how Olivia Colman comes off as really genuine and normal, and Emilia Clarke seems like she's trying too hard, and maybe lying about some stuff, and just being kind of weird: https://youtu.be/EXIW5zIdFqU?si=i-z2qMlKx9flIXOv And I think it's just that Colman is really secure in who she is. Her Hollywood fame came much later even though she had been working in the UK for a lot longer, she never spent any time as the ingenue because she's more of a character actress (though also has the chops to play leading roles -- she's the rare actor whose career seems to be truly based on talent and good work), she married someone in the business before either of them were successful and their marriage seems super solid, and she had kids before having them could be particularly disruptive of her career. Like she basically had a pretty normal life and then suddenly some of her TV work got attention in the US thanks to streaming (Broadchurch, Fleabag, the Night Manager) and then she won an Oscar for The Favourite when she was 45. And now she's having this kind of surprise success later in her career. That never happens. I think it makes her unusually grounded and well-adjusted because she got to really mature and have a real life before she became famous. Meanwhile, Emilia Clarke did Game of Thrones when she was 24, just a couple years into her career. And she immediately became Hollywood-famous and started getting roles in really big budget movies (Terminator, Me Before You, the Hans Solo movie). She had money and was getting recognized in the street essentially from the very beginning of her career. It seems much "luckier" than Colman's trajectory but that's just because people love the idea of overnight success. I think it's actually scary and stressful, and especially when you know your fame and appeal as an actor is, to a great extent, premised on you being young and beautiful, I think it can be destabilizing. I just think she never had a chance to be a regular person, whereas Colman did. |
Anonymous
There is no way that Jennifer Garner is not weird in the way most very famous people are weird. It's not a personal insult to her. She does a good job of working her natural charm and "folksy" manner to seem down to earth, but I guarantee if she showed up in your office tomorrow, or you saw her in the grocery store, she would seem strange to you. She has lived an extremely not normal life, including being married to Affleck and going through a super public and terrible divorce, so it's unlikely she is "normal" in the way OP means. But yes, it's impressive that she can still convince people that she's the lady next door. She is very good in that role. But it's a role. |
Anonymous
| I just listened to a podcast with Maya Rudolph. She sounds very normal! And she has 4 kids but kept on working in between them. She actually explained on the podcast that she thinks she’s so laid back about her career because she grew up in a musical/performing family where music and creativity was just what you did. So she has no real reason to be insecure or status-obsessed. |
Anonymous
That makes sense. I do agree she seems really well-adjusted. She's normal because to her, that life is normal. It's not something she had to adjust to. |