Adam Driver

[danadel]

Lainey posted an article today about him avoiding media lines. It sounds like diva behavior to me.

[Ginger]

This is what Lainey wrote:

I don’t have great memories of Adam Driver on a red carpet. Because Adam Driver isn’t always the most engaging on a red carpet with the press. At his premieres at TIFF this year, he bombed past both press lines at the screenings for The Report and Marriage Story because, I don’t know, I guess he just wasn’t in the mood, even though his co-star in The Report, the indomitable Annette Bening, was stopping for every outlet. It’s not a good look, you know? When Annette Bening, one the greats, is out there doing her job and talking to people about the movie and her experience and Adam’s rushing down the carpet, walks right past her, and isn’t up for interviews. It was similar at the TIFF premiere of Marriage Story. We waited an hour for him to arrive. When he got there he blew past almost every reporter and stopped for one outlet, I think it was a French outlet, and then hustled inside.

Maybe he can just tell everyone he's triggered by red carpets and then everyone will have to give him a pass.

[jmc]

Jul 25, 2005 17:00:24 GMT -4 Mutagen said:

Yup and not just an actress either. John Boyega's been getting flayed alive on social media this week because he made some incredibly mild criticism of the last Star Wars movie (I believe the unforgiveable word he used was "iffy").

People are angry that John Boyega sort of criticized a movie most of them absolutely hated? Fandom is so strange.

[Mutagen]

The newest movie is coming out this week and just about every corner of Star Wars fandom is having a nuclear meltdown over what allegedly happens. I know, Star Wars fans going nuts is nothing new but it seems like both the old AND new fans are mad. I wish Fandom Wank was still around.

[Ladybug]

I'm trying to stay spoiler and reaction free until we see it on Saturday!

[chonies]

I'm conflicted--we all know these interviews are PR and advertising, so why go through with the whole thing about playing the clip? That said, doesn't everyone have those Marshawn "I'm Just Here So I Don't Get Fired" Lynch days?

[Ladybug]

I don't know everything about an actor's "process" but I wonder how he functions in his job if he can't look or listen to his performances. How does he evaluate himself? Can he not watch the dailies that are created during the film making process? Does he just rely on whatever the director tells him to do and adjust accordingly? It seems like this is an essential function of his job, so how does he get by without seeing himself.

That said, if someone says "this makes me really uncomfortable, please don't do it" and it's not 100% necessary to produce the interview, the interviewer should respect that.

The only other comment I have about Terry Gross is that I heard her once interview Casey Affleck and she asked him an extremely personal question about his father's alcohol addiction and how it affected his childhood. It was terribly uncomfortable and he was quiet for so long, I wondered if he'd walked out. You could tell he DID NOT want to go there and his answer was excruciating. I'm no fan of his, but I felt for him in that moment. What adds an even weirder layer is that TG is often in a separate studio from the guest. So he's sitting there alone in some recording studio and gets this very personal question about his father being a drunk and it's dead air for at least 20 seconds. I wonder if that makes her feel bolder in asking some of these questions, because she doesn't have to actually look at the person while they squirm.

[Deleted]

Michelle Pfieffer once said she doesn't get paid for acting she gets paid to do the interviews because it was such a grind. Part of his job is to promote the movie. He needs to grow a pair and do his job.

[Ginger]

He gives Ted Talks about having been in the military and what he learned there. I don't think they teach you in the military that it's cool to walk out on things because you aren't 100% pleased about them.

He's out promoting this movie to boost his Oscar chances so he's really not a victim of NPR or any other media organization that agrees to have him as a guest. If he's sick of doing interviews (and I can understand that it might be challenging for someone who is introverted) he should still be able to grit his teeth through 10 minutes of an NPR interview, and talk to his manager afterwards about reducing his promotional obligations.

[petitesuite]

My perception of this would change greatly if the interviewer had zero way of knowing that he doesn't care to watch himself, but I gather that is not the case and that to me makes showing him the clip a bit...gimmick-y, I guess? Or like they were hoping for a very dramatic reaction? (In which case him walking out was a win for everyone involved.) I mean, for obvious reasons he is very low down on my list of people victimized by fame, but in this particular instance I think I am not very impressed with the overall interview situation either.