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Anonymous wrote:I am no Blake Lively stan but it is rude to comment on someone else's body.

I agree that it's rude. Both ways. Blake countering with asking about the interviewer's non-pregnant bump was gross.

I guess the interviewer shouldn’t have “started it”/made the comment, then.

Yep, don’t comment on pregnant bodies. Nobody wants to hear they look due any minute when they are 5 months along or that it looks so uncomfortable. A professional interviewer should know better but apparently didn’t. I bet she learned that day.

Yes, congrats on your little bump when the pregnancy has been announced is just like that. :/

Don’t trifle with pregnant women especially if you’re not friends like that. A congrats is enough.

What Blake Lively did was much worse. She then commented on the interviewers body and the interviewer later said I read they couldn’t have children. Don’t announce you’re pregnant then! It’s not like they went up and touched her or anything.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve worked these junkets and in defense of the celebrities, they are mindless assembly lines and the reporters do not always ask the best questions. Sure she was rude but with the the “bump” reporter gave to make if about herself? Was Blake supposed to know she was infertile? Ridiculous.

Of course not. Blake was supposed to play the game. She’s being paid lot of money to do that. She didn’t. This interview didn’t get out earlier because the movie totally flopped.

You are an actor. Act polite. If you want to play feminist than you need to wait for a bad question. She didn’t get one she got appropriate questions and she mishandled them.

I just saw a clip of Benedict Cumberbun or whatever his name is and Kiera knightley do an interview and the male interviewer stated by telling Kiera (who looked gorgeous) that she “looked worn out.”

Benedict was clearly shocked and said did you just tell this beautiful woman she looks worn out? and Kiera goes “yea?!! F**k you!”

Kiera was rude but it’s being celebrated because she stood up for herself and clapped back at a rude question. She acted appropriately.

Blake did not.

+1

Blake comes off as the pretty, popular woman and her sycophant friend ganging up on another woman for sport. The interviewer made a *minor* faux pas by saying "bump" instead of just "congrats on the baby." The interviewer is also a non-native English speaker and a woman, so deserves the benefit of the doubt regarding what is, at worst, a slightly more invasive comment.

If the reporter is truly infertile as she claims; she should know commenting on a pregnant woman’s body is inappropriate. Full stop. And to harbor resentment 8 years later? Yeah, no.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I want to know which celebrities were nice!

op - ok! I stopped a while ago so these are older examples.
Phillip seymour hoffman (rip)
justin bateman (so nice)
renee z (stands out in memory for being so nice)
julia roberts
anne hathaway
tom h
colin farrell
owen wilson and luke wilson
bill clinton!
francis ford coppola so cute
maya rudolph
chris rock
michael douglas
Frasier!

awful:
joaquin phoenix. tore me to shreds like a total ahole and wish i could get the b roll.
Mr Big (such a douche)
ed norton
carey mulligan so dismissive
Jane birkin (of birkin bags - absolutely the worst person and would never have that bag based on her personality and behavior)

there were many many others and everyone else was just fine. Those were the ones who stuck in my memory for being terrible or super nice.

Eh, some of the folks on your list are A listers with publicists who have been trained to be nice when the cameras are rolling or when engaging with the public (eg, waitresses or fans).

Comics like Maya and Rock tend to be cool.

Kelsey Grammar is a known womanizer and burned a ton of bridges in Hollywood. He’s known to be a jerk.

Justine Bateman - I think she cosplays the Gen X poster child these days…pretending to be soooo laid back and sooooo antiestablishment/anti materialism while living a very privileged life. I think she abandoned acting too soon when her big shot at a movie career flopped (Satisfaction was really, really bad…mostly because she can’t act) and it kills her that her brother is an A lister while she scrambles to find fulfillment. She seemingly went all in on being counterculture to compensate, but it comes off as very know it all…which speaks volumes about who she is and how she really feels.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve worked these junkets and in defense of the celebrities, they are mindless assembly lines and the reporters do not always ask the best questions. Sure she was rude but with the the “bump” reporter gave to make if about herself? Was Blake supposed to know she was infertile? Ridiculous.

Of course not. Blake was supposed to play the game. She’s being paid lot of money to do that. She didn’t. This interview didn’t get out earlier because the movie totally flopped.

You are an actor. Act polite. If you want to play feminist than you need to wait for a bad question. She didn’t get one she got appropriate questions and she mishandled them.

I just saw a clip of Benedict Cumberbun or whatever his name is and Kiera knightley do an interview and the male interviewer stated by telling Kiera (who looked gorgeous) that she “looked worn out.”

Benedict was clearly shocked and said did you just tell this beautiful woman she looks worn out? and Kiera goes “yea?!! F**k you!”

Kiera was rude but it’s being celebrated because she stood up for herself and clapped back at a rude question. She acted appropriately.

Blake did not.

+1

Blake comes off as the pretty, popular woman and her sycophant friend ganging up on another woman for sport. The interviewer made a *minor* faux pas by saying "bump" instead of just "congrats on the baby." The interviewer is also a non-native English speaker and a woman, so deserves the benefit of the doubt regarding what is, at worst, a slightly more invasive comment.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand it when most (!) celebrities complain publicly about being followed or having zero privacy in their lives!

Hello??!
You guys chose this career path to fame!
And you guys make so much money it is ridiculous to complain about lack of privacy when you can afford anything, anytime, anywhere.
Sheesh.

Everything comes w/a price tag in life.

Why should they be exempt??!

I disagree. ( np) in the past actors had private lives that were seperate from their working lives. They choose to act but why should they forfeit theur private lives just because they are paid well?

But Blake and Ryan in no way seek a private life. They pay a ton of money to their social media team to help with their constant stream of “cute banter.” It’s widely known they schedule walks for the paparazzi. They just don’t want to be actors, they want to launch a million brands and sell them based on the fact that the public feels like they know them - so they do a ton of interviews and appearances and play up relationships with other celebs.

They wanted to make hundreds of millions of dollars and the trade off for that was giving up some privacy. The more any of us put ourselves out there the more we are likely to screw up and make a misstep at some point. They are human but yea their missteps are going to happen in front of a big audience and get talked about a lot. They are entitled to take a step back and retreat for a while. They are not entitled to endless goodwill.

+1. Lots of celebs actually do seek out privacy and they get it. They are the ones who don't post about their families or private lives on social media, don't use their family to hawk products, don't show up to every single public event dressed to the nines and posing for paparazzi, etc. There are plenty of actors who only do press when they are promoting a film. Who do theater in between films because it's a break from being more exposed and allows them to work without having to travel and promote quite as much. Who live in NYC or London and keep a low profile and lead fairly normal lives, albeit with a lot of money and having a recognizable face.

If one of these celebrities was upset about what they viewed as an inappropriately invasive comment by an interviewer I think you'd see a lot of empathy.

Blake Lively is not in this category. She's a public person first, actor second. She and Ryan court fame and public attention for their financial benefit constantly.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve worked these junkets and in defense of the celebrities, they are mindless assembly lines and the reporters do not always ask the best questions. Sure she was rude but with the the “bump” reporter gave to make if about herself? Was Blake supposed to know she was infertile? Ridiculous.

Of course not. Blake was supposed to play the game. She’s being paid lot of money to do that. She didn’t. This interview didn’t get out earlier because the movie totally flopped.

You are an actor. Act polite. If you want to play feminist than you need to wait for a bad question. She didn’t get one she got appropriate questions and she mishandled them.

I just saw a clip of Benedict Cumberbun or whatever his name is and Kiera knightley do an interview and the male interviewer stated by telling Kiera (who looked gorgeous) that she “looked worn out.”

Benedict was clearly shocked and said did you just tell this beautiful woman she looks worn out? and Kiera goes “yea?!! F**k you!”

Kiera was rude but it’s being celebrated because she stood up for herself and clapped back at a rude question. She acted appropriately.

Blake did not.

I’m so sad that Jane Birkin was terrible. Always thought she seemed kind of sweet and calm and mild mannered. Do you have more details? What were the circumstances of the I get view and how exactly did she behave/what did she say?

Anonymous wrote:I’ve worked these junkets and in defense of the celebrities, they are mindless assembly lines and the reporters do not always ask the best questions. Sure she was rude but with the the “bump” reporter gave to make if about herself? Was Blake supposed to know she was infertile? Ridiculous.

In the interview Blake makes this big point about how celebrities are people and they are more than their public personas or what is written about them in the press. She is extremely pointed about it and is clearly saying she felt the interviewer was looking at her one-dimensionally.

So Blake can demand the interviewer know she doesn't want to be congratulated in her baby bump and she's a complex and nuanced person to be treated with care, but Blake can't be expected to do the *exact same thing* with this reporter she just met and wrote off as stupid and unworthy of her time due to a single comment that Blake was offended by (but that most people would barely register)?

Blake comes off like an entitled jerk because she's demanding that she be treated with extreme empathy and kindness at the same time she treats another person like the gym you scrape off the bottom of your shoe.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand it when most (!) celebrities complain publicly about being followed or having zero privacy in their lives!

Hello??!
You guys chose this career path to fame!
And you guys make so much money it is ridiculous to complain about lack of privacy when you can afford anything, anytime, anywhere.
Sheesh.

Everything comes w/a price tag in life.

Why should they be exempt??!

I disagree. ( np) in the past actors had private lives that were seperate from their working lives. They choose to act but why should they forfeit theur private lives just because they are paid well?

But Blake and Ryan in no way seek a private life. They pay a ton of money to their social media team to help with their constant stream of “cute banter.” It’s widely known they schedule walks for the paparazzi. They just don’t want to be actors, they want to launch a million brands and sell them based on the fact that the public feels like they know them - so they do a ton of interviews and appearances and play up relationships with other celebs.

They wanted to make hundreds of millions of dollars and the trade off for that was giving up some privacy. The more any of us put ourselves out there the more we are likely to screw up and make a misstep at some point. They are human but yea their missteps are going to happen in front of a big audience and get talked about a lot. They are entitled to take a step back and retreat for a while. They are not entitled to endless goodwill.

I used to do the same thing many years ago- press junkets, celeb PR, interviews etc. I agree and I got out of that world pretty quickly bc it disgusted me so much.

I also adored Philip Seymour Hoffman. Mark Ruffalo is incredibly kind and down to earth as was Peter Krause (Nate Fisher of Six Feet Under). Surprisingly, Gwyneth Paltrow was very sweet to me.

For some reason the press junket of the movie Alfie really sticks out to me- Marisa Tomei was the worst. She made everyone wait hours for her and was a real diva. Jude Law and Sienna Miller were just blah.

Anyway, glad I don’t deal with these people anymore!

I’ve worked these junkets and in defense of the celebrities, they are mindless assembly lines and the reporters do not always ask the best questions. Sure she was rude but with the the “bump” reporter gave to make if about herself? Was Blake supposed to know she was infertile? Ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I want to know which celebrities were nice!

op - ok! I stopped a while ago so these are older examples.
Phillip seymour hoffman (rip)
justin bateman (so nice)
renee z (stands out in memory for being so nice)
julia roberts
anne hathaway
tom h
colin farrell
owen wilson and luke wilson
bill clinton!
francis ford coppola so cute
maya rudolph
chris rock
michael douglas
Frasier!

awful:
joaquin phoenix. tore me to shreds like a total ahole and wish i could get the b roll.
Mr Big (such a douche)
ed norton
carey mulligan so dismissive
Jane birkin (of birkin bags - absolutely the worst person and would never have that bag based on her personality and behavior)

there were many many others and everyone else was just fine. Those were the ones who stuck in my memory for being terrible or super nice.

Some of the celebs you mention were not nice ti tge people in their lives. Ie Owen Wilson and not meeting his daughter!

Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand it when most (!) celebrities complain publicly about being followed or having zero privacy in their lives!

Hello??!
You guys chose this career path to fame!
And you guys make so much money it is ridiculous to complain about lack of privacy when you can afford anything, anytime, anywhere.
Sheesh.

Everything comes w/a price tag in life.

Why should they be exempt??!

I disagree. ( np) in the past actors had private lives that were seperate from their working lives. They choose to act but why should they forfeit theur private lives just because they are paid well?

Anonymous wrote:The amount of thought some of you give to this is gobsmacking

You're upset that people think about human behavior and develop reasoned opinions on it?

What do you think about all day?

The amount of thought some of you give to this is gobsmacking