Most awkward celebrity interviews

Oh my God--Courtney must feel she was RAPED!

Chrissie Hynde interviewed by David Green on All Things Considered. Other-worldly in her unprovoked cuntitude

This one with Leslie Mann, Alison Brie, and Dakota Johnson is terrible. Leslie and Dakota both seem like they're stoned and keep giggling like schoolgirls about inside jokes the entire time. Half the questions they get they respond to with "What? Sorry, I was spacing out"—no joke. Leslie especially comes across as an unprofessional cunt, and it's made me not want to ever watch anything with her in it again. She seems like a bitch.

Allison tries to put on her Hollywood A-face and reel it in, but Dakota and Leslie basically mock her the entire time. To make it worse, the interviewer is neurotic and stops the interview because she "thinks they're talking about her" and acts like a clingy celebrity suckup psycho.

Dakota should be careful.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

And, unlike Leslie, she's not married to a powerful writer-director-producer.

This is classic - though one problem with these stupid live hookup videos is there's a time delay in the audio going back and forth, they can't really read each other's eyes, etc. So, it all begins with an inherent awkawdness.

But still, they're openly laughing at her!

Not super awkward, but here is Leslie again being a cunt (with Dakota) and asking a hot male reporter to strip for her

This is my favorite, though ... the anchors laugh themselves into TEARS after dumb as a box of rocks swimmer Ryan Lochte is interviewed about his upcoming reality show.

Their hilarity begins at the 5:00 mark

R7, I came to post precisely that.

Devious?

That isn't awkward R9, that's just Kate getting her point across in a way that is worthy of legendary cunt status. None of the ire is for Meredith, so it's more funny than anything.

Joan Collins asking a reporter if he's gay after she feels insulted by his line of questioning.

Van Johnson on Letterman

Here's a CNN clip about Jian Ghomeshi trying (without much success) to interview Billy Bob Thornton.

Although Ghomeshi would later be exposed as a pretty nasty piece of work himself, he seemed to have everyone's sympathy at the time of the interview.

(BTW, the complete interview is on YouTube, for anyone who is interested and can stand it.)

Mike Jerrick of "Good Morning Philadelphia" was hilarious. Here he is making Chanel laugh AGAIN after interviewing the Kardashians.

Some people are just terrible interviews, like Warren Beatty. They hate it so much you wonder why they even bother.

Meg Ryan on Parky

^^ I like that he doesn't buy into her bullshit ... he's very direct with her. You can literally see her eyes grow big [bold] : o

KStew on Letterman

Paula Abdul drunk on an interview. It was both funny and awkward.

R18, that interview was awkward, but only because "awkward" is Kristen's middle name/the basis of her entire career. She is sporting all the nervous tics she employs when playing any character on-screen: The repetitive muttering, eyes darting, nervously running her fingers through her hair; I am still appalled that there are people who praise her as an actress, and even more mystified that the French heralded her as a major talent for "Clouds of Sils Maria." Granted, that was the ONLY thing I've seen her in where she managed to tone down her acting crutches, but it was hardly award-worthy. Were the French just trying to be ironic?

Wow! These are amazing!

Tori Amos is normally gracious and kind even if she can come across as kooky.

This interview is an exception. She’s completely uncooperative and unforthcoming, and the interviewer tries soooo hard to get her to open up and to empathize and the harder he tries, the more resistant and paranoid she becomes. She says she hasn’t slept in 24 hours toward the end, so maybe it was delirium. It’s painful.

Jesus Christ, the Courtney Love interview OP posted is BRUTAL. I don't think I've ever witnessed so many long pauses in an interview. The interviewer is awful, not so much asking questions but rather confronting her with statements that illustrate his preconceived narrative is about her life and career. She comes off as bitchy, but rightfully so, and even still, in the end she is ultimately nice to him. In any case, it's hard to watch.

I’m with you, R23. The “awkwardness,” if you want to be unduly gracious to the interviewer, is his fault, not hers. What in the world gives a music journalist the right to invade someone’s deepest personal concerns in this way, and especially in such an accusatory way?

He may as well have said, “The sense I get is that you’re talented but you are trying to bring down your whole world with reckless drugs and sex, and you probably want to see your child dead the way you killed your husband! Accurate?”

Kudos to her, kind of, for tolerating it. But I really don’t think she should have.

Leslie Mann has the most annoying voice.

I heard Coldplay interviewed on NPR a few years ago and fetushead Chris Martin was really condescending. He acted as though he were doing the interviewer a favor. Tedious bore.

R25 Was he consciously uncoupling from Gwyneth at the time? Maybe that’s why he was irritable. Did he share any good advice from his very good friends Beyoncé and Shawn Cater, better known to the proles as Jay Z?

Bruce Willis being a total dick to the interviewer here. Mary Louise Parker tries to help the guy out, but then she kinda starts being a cunt too

R27 lol Willis is always a dick.

R20 i agree with you but....Letterman didn't have to be a dick about it.

R23 Lol that is exactly how i imagine most interviews would go if they were being conducted by stans on tumblr. They think they know everything about certain actors.

Oliver Reed, this one's a doozy

The French are ALWAYS trying to be ironic R20.

R5 The #1. She acted like Wednesday Addams of The Addams Family.

Samuel L Jackson/Laurence Fishburne

I love Chrissie Hynde but I wouldn't interview that CUNT if you paid me.

Joan vs. Jessica, 1992

A true bitchfest!

The Bee Gees walk out of an interview:

Courtney is always getting the worst interviews. Barbara Walters back in the day got REAL tacky with her lol. She can hold her own though and I don't think she cares if it's awkward (eg. her legendary Letterman interview, interrupting Madonna on MTV).

For me the most awkward might be Joan Rivers calling her guest Brigitte Nielsen a "cunt" on her own talk show, prompting Brigitte to grab her tiny husband from the audience and storm out (only to come back later and still be awkward).

To be honest, the black guy who interviewed Courtney was so dull, inept and not up to the task.

The one with tara reid (?) And the blond anti vax woman

I think Milla was being asked bout her dad........?

Rosie confronting Tom Selleck on her show about the NRA, shortly after Columbine. I watched this when it happened. She sort of ambushed him. It was so surreal.

41 replies and no mention of Gene Simmons and Terry Gross?

Leslie Mann and Dakota Johnson are such raging ASSHOLES! They're so stupid and bitchy to the interviewer, who just feeds into their "hot, mean girl" act by asking if they're talking about her. Dakota Johnson has to be the most talentless, unatttractive nepotism hire on the planet, and Leslie Mann wouldn't work if it weren't for her extremely rich, powerful husband.

There seems to be a law that in order to be a successful actress you have to be completely devoid of personality while simultaneously being a cunt. Kristen Stewart was so dull and bitchy that David Letterman deserves a Medal of Honor for not throttling her.

I agree R43 I despise dakota and don't understand why she has become who she is. I wish Alison brie would've smacked them both. I hate that specific group of non talented bitches who have had unfair career opportunities. Dakota, cara, etc

[quote] Kristen Stewart was so dull and bitchy that David Letterman deserves a Medal of Honor for not throttling her

Letterman is suck a dick, though.

She really didn't, though, r41. She had been talking for days about how he had been booked on the show specifically because he wanted to defend gun ownership, and then when the interview actually started he pretended like he wanted nothing to do with the issue. If anything, he ambushed HER.

I saw that interview when it originally aired, r12. As I recall, Johnson was a cunt about the band from the time he came onstage, and Letterman was never one to suffer fools.

This thread is delicious.

Michael Winner vs Richard LittleJohn

[quote]r42 41 No mention of Gene Simmons and Terry Gross?

Dear LORD, but that was painful! He must be the poster child of the incel/red pill gang.

Here's a clip of the gif at R40 (skip to 7:18).

The French prick asks Milla about her father getting sent to prison for insurance fraud. Milla says, "Yes it is true, my father spent 8 years in prison." Then her eyes fill with tears and there's a look of pure pain on her face as she says, "I lost my father for 8 years," then knocks the glass over and walks out.

Damn, R51, never seen that before. Milla had a right to be angry though. That's a fucked up and irrelevant thing to bring up during an interview in front of a live audience.

Christina Hendricks being called "full figured."

There was a fantastic interview from MuchMusic which has obviously been destroyed/buried by Beyoncé and her people.

It was when she was with Destiny's Child. They were shilling for McDonalds and the interviewer brings it up and takes them to task.

It was SO awkward and delicious as Beyoncé tries to smile her way through PR answers that don't work on the interviewer who was not going to drop the topic.

R6 that's... embarrassing as shit. Full grown women acting like obnoxious, cunty highschool girls. And imagine if it were two male actors who were sniggering at a female reporter, remarking how hot she was and asking her to take her shirt off.

R54 why is shilling for McDonald's worthy of being "taken to task" for? That's how celebs make most of their fortunes; shilling shit. That interviewer must've been purposely being a twat to get a reaction out of them, like a lot of the other interviewers in this thread are doing.

Thread closed. Nothing can top this.

[R56] You are correct, I was just coming to post that. He made that interviewer feel like the dumbest person alive.

I don’t remember who it was, but on one episode of Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen kept reading from his cards, “You were ________” and “Years ago, you did _______,” with follow up questions, and the celeb gawked at him and kept saying, “No, I didn’t,” “no, that never happened,” etc., and finally “Where are you getting this information? Wikipedia? Everything you’re saying I did I didn’t do. Who does your research?!” It was delicious to watch the smug little coke addict squirm.

Scrolling back up, getting a fresh cup to cradle and sitting down with this thread from beginning to end. Thanks again, DL, I love me some awkward bitchiness in the morning.

Hey isn't that Toure interviewing Courtney Love? He was on MSNBC for awhile. I've never liked Courtney Love in any capacity. I've always believed she killed Kurt. Probably jealousy. He had the talent and the looks in that marriage.

When the entire panel of "What's My Line" didn't know who Gale Storm was

R56 miserable old prick, isn't he? Why bother even agreeing to the interview?

And props to the interviewer for not just walking out, which is what he should've done IMO.

Cate is amazed someone would ask about special effects or working with animals (I guess)

The Great Kate WILL be obeyed, pre-interview.

The host Dick Cavett smooths it all over by kissing her ass. He just doesn't want her to cancel.

Love ol grouchy Kate. I remember reading that she actually really liked Dick Cavett, and he was one of the few she would allow to interview her.

Omarosa on Wendy Williams a long time ago - so catty and over-the-top between the 2 of them. Fun.

The infamous Barbra Streisand/MIke Wallace interview takes the cake. Wallace was such an asshole.

I can’t believe this hasn’t been brought up yet! Jesse Eisenberg interview.

[quote]r67 The infamous Barbra Streisand/MIke Wallace interview takes the cake. Wallace was such an asshole.

I have mixed feelings about that one.

On the one hand, Babs IS psychotically self obsessed and there were TONS of people who couldn't bear her arogance in the early days. So that's fair game - she made her bed.

On the other, he comes across as kind of mansplaining to her. [italic]("Twenty or thirty years of psychoanalysis? I say to myself, 'What is it that she is trying to find out that takes twenty to thirty years?'")

R69, All celebrities are self-obsessed. Every single one. Barbra is just honest and tells it like it is. Nobody notices if it's a male celebrity.

Joan Rivers just DESTROYS her competition. She's a comedic legend.

Yes, R60, it is Touré interviewing Courtney. He seems alright usually, but that was a truly awful interview. As others have pointed out, he didn't so much interview her as he did confront her with statements as opposed to questions ("So, another great Courtney Love album"; "I get the sense that you are war with yourself" etc). He should've known better with ANY interview subject, let alone a wildcard like Courtney Love. It was a trainwreck and she could've rightly been a massive cunt to him, but she was instead aloof and bitchy (although she does warm up a bit toward the end).

Oh, and I don't agree on the Kurt conspiracy crap. If there had been plausible evidence for him having been murdered, Courtney would have been prosecuted years ago. The alleged amount of heroin in Kurt's bloodstream that many use as the 'smoking gun' (no pun intended) to disprove him shooting himself is unfounded and was falsely reported by a Seattle rag paper only days after he died. I literally think they pulled the number out of the air, because there is no reliable source to back it up. Death certificates are not made public, so the only people who would actually know what the toxicology report says are Kurt's family members, and none of them have ever mentioned anything that speaks to this.

R72 tell that to my brother. He loves Nirvana and thinks that Courtney killed Kurt. He even made me watch a documentary that allegedly proved that theory. I don't believe Courtney has even been a suspect to the police, just in the public opinion.

If this can be considered an interview...

R74 what's going on there?

[quote]r70 Barbra is just honest and tells it like it is.

I definitely agree she got pushback because she was a strong, uncompromising woman ... who, incidentally, was usually right.

But there's some shady stuff from the beginning of her career where she WASN'T honest and wanting to "tell it like it is". I'm talking about people in the industry's experience with her, rather than her public persona.

For instance, she really wasn't doing very well with her performance when FUNNY GIRL was in rehearsal for Broadway, and she panicked and got her old drama teacher Allan Miller to heavily coach her in all her scenes and songs (they had to use out of the way places like the ladies room because the director didn't want him around.) He drilled a characterization into her and came up with approaches to the different scenes and songs that were different from each other, and built into an arc with "emotional density". (He had also coached her through her auditions for the show for free on his own time ... though she never even called him after she finally got the part.) (Untill she needed him again, that is.) Then she even dickered with him about money when he had to put other students on hold while he helped her on the road for 13 weeks.

The kicker is, she DROPPED HIM the moment the show opened ... just as she had initially dropped him right after she got the part. This despite that their relationship went back years and he's even let her stay at his house when she was essentially homeless. She wanted no trace that ANYONE had helped her with her performance; it had to be purely, absolutely HER. She only called him when she saw Miller had put an ad in the tradepapers announcing he was back in town and accepting students again. ("Alan Miller is resuming classes" then in small print "Recent coach to Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.") She was FURIOUS and demanded he not run the ad again. He was basically like, "Fuck you, lady."

He said, "Barbra, let me tell you something, okay? If we made a list of all the things that I have done negatively to you, and all the positive things I have done FOR you, and we compared them to the list of positive and negative things you have done toward me or to people that I care about, whose POSITIVE list do you think would be a lot longer?"

This was so awkward felt sorry for Dick Clark. It has been said that Prince was pissed Dick insulted Minnesota.

"Just give me a FFFANNN! It's unbelievable!"

[quote] All celebrities are self-obsessed. Every single one. Barbra is just honest and tells it like it is. Nobody notices if it's a male celebrity.

LOL

What a hilariously predictable enabler you are!

[quote]r36 The Bee Gees walk out of an interview:

It may be the accents, but I don't quite get what turned off Barry Gibb (or is it Andy?) so much that he decided to bail.

Why were his feathers so ruffled?

Tom Cruise loves Australia

RDJ walks out

Barbra was telling everyone how to do their jobs, and taking over the entire interview, which clearly pissed Wallace off. So he went in for blood.

Neither of them come off great.

That Van Johnson interview at r12 convinced me that Robert Preston must have based his "Victor/Victoria" character on Van Johnson's mannerisms.

Only Robert Preston was delightful in that, and Van Johnson just comes off as an ass.

R84 I don't think so. That interview was 3 years after the movie.

prince was always a diva. i hadnt heard about his beef with we are the world until after his death.

Sorry but I've always found Cate Blanchett to be a stuffy, arrogant, and cold bitch. That interview above just confirmed it. It's hard to tell if she's joking around or being a bitch.

Re: the Barbra/Mike Wallace interview, I actually felt sorry for Barbra. Mike was bringing up some very painful things from her children. Wasn't he talking about her stepfather? And how he called her ugly? I think Babs was not only caught off guard but Wallace triggered some painful, repressed memories for her that she broke in the moment.

Interestingly, wasn't this around the time of Prince of Tides? It seemed to mirror the themes of the book/film and I could understand why she was so attached to the book and adapting it to film.

R80, that’s Barry (Andy had been dead for nearly a decade at that point). I don’t think understanding the accents helps explain much — the interviewer seems like a condescending prick, but Barry walks out pretty suddenly, with no obvious immediate cause. He just was peevish that day, maybe.

My favorite part is Maurice’s quip explaining why he can’t finish the interview — because he can’t do impressions!

This one with Barbra, what a Diva!

She’s not a celebrity but Meghan McCain on Seth Myers made me realize she’s a nut psycho.

Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, and Ben Gazzara giving poor Dick Cavett a hard time.

Several years ago, The Rolling Stones were interviewed immediately after a concert. They were so stoned they couldn’t even make a sentence.

David Bowie and Russel Harty

Whitney Houston is odd in this - she's a bit snappish, but she also seems kind of forgiving, and indulgent, to a degree.

Maybe when you're that big, you kind of brush some stuff off and just keep moving forward even if someone's offended you in the past. Tomorrow's another day, there's records to sell, and all.

^^ I'd also say this isn't necessarily an "awkward" interview ... is it? It's just very interesting.

[quote]This was so awkward felt sorry for Dick Clark. It has been said that Prince was pissed Dick insulted Minnesota.

Now, I wonder what Prince thought of The Golden Girls. They were always dissing Minnesota on that show, at one point labeling it the Cradle of Idiocy. XD

Tom Cruise is a bit...miffed in that interview.

Johnny Rotten is rotten

That jealous liar Glenn Dissing Meryl. You can see her cringe when the interviewer mentions Meryl.

Glenn says Meryl won the Oscar for "Iron Maiden"! From 1:10

It's been taken down from the internet, but Holly Hunter was interviewed by Merry Miller over a decade ago and it was cringeworthy and hilarious.

We had a thread about it back then, I recall.

R100 how was it cringeworthy?

I have to interrupt the awkward interviews to profess that I love Dick Cavett and I find the handsome nerd more arousing than almost anyone.

Also, I love his Hepburn interview. Even if she made him rearrange the set, she was clearly getting worn out on the facade of being presented as straight. Cavett essentially asked about her “#metoo” experiences and she said that she had never had one in Hollywood, and then implied that most of the men in Hollywood aren’t into women. Cavett asked if she has thoughts about that and she said yes, evolution: the world is overpopulated, and homosexuality is natural population control. I kind of admire and kind of resent his restraint in asking point blank if she is ready to come out as a lesbian. I feel like she was sort of goading him to do it.

R97 don't be so glib.

Can I just say that chrissy Hynde's book is one of the worst I ever read?

[quote]Mike was bringing up some very painful things from her children. Wasn't he talking about her stepfather? And how he called her ugly?

Yes, her stepfather was cruel to her. He favored her "prettier" half-sister, Roslyn. One day he asked Roslyn if she wanted to go to the store and get some ice cream. Barbra cried that she wanted ice cream, too, but her stepfather said that she couldn't go because she was "too ugly for ice cream."

[bold]#TheTruthHurts

Barbra was too ugly to take outside. I loathe that tiresome bitch. No one feels sorry for her tiny pains and lifelong resentments. Every piece of dreck movie she's ever made was to prove that she's sexually desirable. There's some version of a makeover/reveal in each film where our hooknose, cross-eyed heroine is discovered to be beautiful! She's a clinical narcissist. Save it for your psychiatrist B.S. They're paid not to laugh or roll their eyes. A self involved egomaniacal bitch. EAT YOUR ICE CREAM BARBARA JOAN!

Cruise must have been on the rag in 2005.

R99 still sad after three months Glenn couldn’t take home the Oscar this time. Plus she forgot she was in the same category with Meryl in 1987 and 88 haha.

[quote] Now, I wonder what Prince thought of The Golden Girls. They were always dissing Minnesota on that show, at one point labeling it the Cradle of Idiocy. XD

They were not dissing Minneapolis--they were dissing a (mythical) small town in the rural Northern region of the state, which few people in the Twin Cities even ever go to visit (other than to the city of Duluth).

I am a Minnesotan, and I take absolutely no offense at the St. Olaf jokes from "Golden Girls," and have yet to find anyone from Minnesota who does. Well, perhaps with the exception of people who went to St. Olaf College in Northfield, and there it's more that they are often weary of explaining to people from out-of-state that the made-up town has nothing to do with their college (it's considered one of the best in the state).

[quote]They were not dissing Minneapolis--they were dissing a (mythical) small town in the rural Northern region of the state, which few people in the Twin Cities even ever go to visit (other than to the city of Duluth).

They dissed the University of Minnesota in the Blanche/menopause episode and sometimes explained Rose's stupidity to strangers with "She's from Minnesota!"

The problem with the Courtney Love interview is mainly the interviewer, Touré. He had a lot of adulation early in his career and considered himself God's gift to music journalism. Earlier this year he was accused of sexual harassment, which wasn't a big surprise. Huge ego.

The interviewer in this video is such a douchebag, but Bjork n Siggi were adorably awkward.

Speaking of Bjork, I think this may be the most awkwardly ABORTED interview:

The circling morons of the morning news team at R5 owe Cara Delevingne an apology. She grew frustrated with their stupidity, but she attempted to respond to their questions with sense and intelligence. So they dismissed her - saying she needed to find a redbull and a better mood. I would have spit at the remote camera. Cara does get a great incredulous look in before the feed cuts. Those folk were seriously weird and so fucking rude.

She needs to learn (or probably has learned!) that subtle snarkiness is going to go over the heads of morning show hosts. That audience is very middle-of-the-road, very literal.

Smile, say your piece, get out.

She can save her little jokes for Graham Norton, and that crowd.

I remember Mary J Blige threatening to beat up Veronica Webb during an interview for Andy Warhol.’s Interview magazine.

Nah, I disagree R116. You've obviously never been in this position. Cara did nothing wrong. The morning hosts were very capable of being snarky once they cut her feed. Do y'all really think "morning show hosts" wake up that way? American media personalities are all acting dude. They're dirty smelly, cheating lying mean spirited, thin skinned goofy laughing & unusually stupid people like most other Americans. Cara was ready, but an actress does not have to become a moron to please a small town crowd. The big name morning and evening hosts should be ashamed when they ask such stupid questions. Dare to be a bit original, y'all don't have to be smart.

[quote]r118 Cara was ready, but an actress does not have to become a moron to please a small town crowd.

She is essentially paying a social call in public, and should err on the side of caution.

Of course, she just wing it and say whatever ... but look how that turned out for her. She's still a laughingstock because of it.

This is a great one. Toward the end, Madonna wants nothing to do with this interviewer.

You're being ridiculously argumentative R119. I'm not a fan of hers in any way. But I've been in that position. Cara's not the personality to play like a bimbo. You're not paying a social call to anyone who mistreats you. The are hosting you and on that show, lucky to have your time.

Cara Delevingne is hardly a laughing stock because of that brief interview with a mean and moronic morning team. They're just fat white whores who can't get a real job. I'm a proud black handsome man. We're serious about how we are approached. I'll make fun of anything, but you shouldn't make fun of me. Not if you want a good interview. Listen and learn R119. You sound like a sour old white man who dislikes strong young women. Graham Norton? What the fuck has he got to do with it. A chat show appearance has nothing in common with doing a hundred satellite interviews in a day.

Cara Delavigne comes off like an asshole. Her, “ I never read the book or the script” is supposed to...what? Funny? She was angry from the start.

You must be autistic R122. Cara was smiling and being a bit sarcastic in response to their moronically phrased questions.

How did this fun thread devolve into sniping over Cara Delavigne? Can we please move along and stay on topic?

Or if people must get into a fight over a celebrity, please do better than Cara fucking Delavigne.

^ Fuck off Gramps.

Here's the one with Holly Hunter, R100

I saw that interview with Jesse Eisenberg years ago. Couldn't sit through it again but remembered the interviewer should never have been given that job, she was unprofessional and made it all about her "I'm so cute" schtick. Couldn't even get the name of his film character correct (that's as much as I watched this time). IIRC her big gimmick was to get the interviewee to say her name, for some self promotion I guess. Ugh.

Jodi Arias "No jury will convict me."

The Holly Hunter video does not show in the link.

R129 - it works for me, but it did pop up saying 'allow flash' - so maybe that's it?

Guy interviews Farrah Abraham ho - has no idea who she is - hilarious

I've been there. Whitney had clearly been up for a few days before this interview. She's composed, but not a happy woman. She gave some great interviews in her life and some high and hostile ones too.

Touré is an embarrassment to himself. He and not Courtney Love is entirely to blame for this failure of an interview.

[quote]r121 Cara's not the personality to play like a bimbo.

She doesn't have to take on a bimbo persona - just answer her fellow professionals' questions clearly and straightforwardly, and get out. But instead she sinks herself by becoming sarcastic and flippant, taking offense at non-hostile questions.

[quote]r121 They are hosting you on that show, lucky to have your time.

Mmmmm .... it's not like this former model is President of the United States, granting them an exclusive. If she weren't available, they'd book another former model/starlet. There's really no shortage.

[quote]r121 You're being ridiculously argumentative [R119].

The Whitney/Diane Sawyer interview was cray cray.

Bruce Willis is such a prick.

David Bowie gets irritated at prodding questions about his sex life.

[quote]American media personalities are all acting dude. They're dirty smelly, cheating lying mean spirited, thin skinned goofy laughing & unusually stupid people like most other Americans.

R118 you sound very angry, anti-American, and for someone who claims to not be a fan of Cara Delevingne, you certainly go out of your way to defend her. Or was that just a reason to bash Americans?

Farrah Fawcett a little loopy

Lou Reed being his usual charming self

Anytime an actor is asked about shipping. So many fans ask cringey questions at conventions.

shipping?

Ruby Wax and Sandra Bernhard. Sandra said that Ruby apologized to her years later. Ruby is so cutting but Sandra more than holds her own.

R142 for example Bucky and Steve from the Captain America movies. The ship is called Stucky.

Any interview with Zoe Kravitz.

Um. What was that Ruby Wax creature? I hope she was canceled.

R146 Ruby Wax is a household name in the UK. Some of her interviews are legendary.

I don't think there was anything awkward about that Sandra Bernhard interview. It's actually rather tame by Ruby Wax standards.

She basically called Sandra B ugly. I usually feel like I get British humor, but the abusive kind I really cannot vibe with.

This is a cringe fest. To be fair, Kim is fucking mental, but I hate that fat fucking Colleen more. She looks low level Down's Syndrome with that hair.

Apparently Madonna's appearance on Graham Norton last night was hideously awkward.

[quote]r146 Um. What was that Ruby Wax creature? I hope she was canceled.

Ruby Wax is divine. She was an American who trained for clasical theater in the UK, then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. After doing stage and television (as both a performer and a writer), she eventually achieved fame doing celeb interviews on her TV show. They were very insightful and funny.

Interestingly, after that she went back to school and got a degree in cognitive therapy, acknowledging her own clinical depression and becoming a speaker on mental health.

Here she is discussing one of her big interviews that she feels she mishandled:

Also Ruby Wax was the script editor on AbFab, which practically makes her a DL Saint.

^^ Yes. She did a part on the show, too, appearing in 2 episodes.

THIS is hysterical - - where she's picking up young guys on the beach for a mortified Joan Collins. It could have gone SO wrong!!

Ruby Wax's time spent with Trump is some mind-blowing television.

Another voice to say the Dick Cavett Hepburn interview doesn’t belong in this thread. What happened was she had come in the day before the scheduled show to check out the studio, etc, and did not expect the cameras to be running. After a few minutes of good-natured criticism of the set (table arrangement, carpet, etc) she suddenly says let’s do the interview now. Cavett, shocked at first, quickly adjusts and pulls off a great 2 hour interview. The whole thing (in two parts) is on YouTube.

Cavett was a lousy pseudo smart lockjaw interviewer. He makes me cringe. Hepburn was a fascinating subject even if she always did say so herself.

[quote]r155 Another voice to say the Dick Cavett Hepburn interview doesn’t belong in this thread. What happened was...

That doesn't mean she isn't behaving like an egomaniacal harpy, whether it's the day she was scheduled for taping or not.

[italic]("NOBODY answers...!")

Ruby Wax was very funny and really pushed the limits. She mocks Burt Reynolds and his tacky museum and clothes and talent every step of the way, and he agrees with her. They are vicious about Loni Anderson and it seems to bond them. Ruby's into him in spite of herself.

Love this Gloria Swanson interview with Barbara Walters. From about the 10.30 mark in this clip Gloria is clearly sick of Barbara's shit.

We can now add Madonna's interview on the recent Graham Norton show to the list.

The Christina Hendricks full-figured interview.

R142 'ship(ping)' is derived from 'relationship' and refers to when someone (called a 'shipper') wants two people (real or fictional) together in a romantic relationship. See R144's example. Unfortunately, in the case of fictional characters, this often leads to people shipping the two actors. I remember Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan seemed a bit weirded out at conventions when fans would present them with illustrations of their characters making out and what-not.

[quote]r159 in this clip Gloria is clearly sick of Barbara's shit.

At first I thought this said, [italic] "in this clip Gloria is clearly sick of Barbara's [bold] slit [/bold] ." [/italic]

: o

[Quote] I remember Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan seemed a bit weirded out at conventions when fans would present them with illustrations of their characters making out and what-not.

They're lucky that's all they saw. That's fairly tame as far as fanart goes.

Joan Rivers gets MAD and walks out after a CNN interviewer suggests that she's mean.

David Letterman's interviews with Teri Garr were always awkward.

[quote]r165 Joan Rivers gets MAD and walks out after a CNN interviewer suggests that she's mean.

Joan Rivers was kind of a nasty twat. And yeah, she defininitely WAS mean.

Graham vs Madonna

^ Isn't that Gloria Swanson?

I love Ruby Wax, but her interview with Sandra B. is one of the few times where I think she did lose control, went too far, and simply tilted over into meanness. Telling Sandra she isn't classically beautiful is like telling Cyndi Lauper her hair is fucked. It just means you've lost the plot.

Sandra was hilarious and really pulled the rug out from under her.

R160- I disagree. I wasn’t uncomfortable at all. Graham is the ultimate pro- confident, charming and (razor) sharp of wit. He is perfect for Madonna who assumes everyone is a simpleton. I enjoyed their dynamic.

Barbara Walters was a shithead for reading that Eunice Shriver one up letter to close the segment. Hatchet job maneuver and for what? Fucking bitch. Swanson did not deserve that. "What has SHE done with HERl life?" Bitch please. How small of Eunice and Barbara.

[quote]r168 Graham vs Madonna

Has she ever given an interview where she seemed to be anything like open, or relaxed?

It's amazing that she's so perennially UPTIGHT.

[Quote] He is perfect for Madonna who assumes everyone is a simpleton.

I bet no one [italic] ever [/italic] makes that assumption hat about her.

[quote]We can now add Madonna's interview on the recent Graham Norton show to the list.

Nope. I didn't find it awkward at all.

This dumb cunt Merry Miller (interviewer of Holly Hunter) must have a killer PR team as every upload of the interview on the internet seems to have been swiftly taken down. If you Google "Merry Miller and Holly Hunter," there are numerous video results dating as early as last month, but when you click on them, the videos are gone. The link above by R126 doesn't work for me either. There's nothing there.

This always cracks me up

R.e. the Cara Delevigne interview at R5—Cara wasn't putting on a happy face, that's for certain, but the bitchy news anchor with the "can I speak to your manager?" haircut was out of line by telling her that she "seemed irritated" on air. That's not that cunt's job to do, and it's unprofessional. If I were Cara, I'd have told that sow to choke on Satan's cock before storming out.

Around 1991, Dolly & Oprah shared a somewhat difficult interview exchange about tabloids - Oprah declared she hated them, while Dolly smartly countered that they "keep you hot, especially after a flop" and added, "you got to learn to use them, instead of them, using you". Oprah wanted none of the advice and kept to her opinion that tabloids were trash. Of course, Dolly kept her sunny smile a constant, even if the exchange seemed to rattle her, a bit.

There was no awkwardness between Graham and Madonna. Any awkwardness was between Madonna and Ian McKellan but that was only brief.

R173 I think this new interview with Madonna and Harry Smith is very easy and laid back by Madonna standards. It’s a nice conversation, but he does mention that they are friends off camera.

The Graham Norton interview is not awkward, either. Someone has mentioned it here several times, and it feels to me like Graham has a PR intern peppering the board to drive viewers or something. Madonna was OK there.

She seems to be loosening up. The more I hear her new music in album form, the more I like many of the songs. I love the production and instrumentation for the most part. Her vocabulary is still simple and pretty limited, but she juxtaposes some interesting contradictory ideas within songs and I find it pretty successful on the whole. “God Control” is a better than I’d expect from here these days.

Anyway. Interviews, right? Her recent ones present a more thoughtful and likable version of Madonna than I am used to. Some of her older interviews were excruciating and definitely suited for this thread.

^ what you wrote about Madonna's interviews is not worth the virtual type. The woman should never speak. I can't think of a less interesting phenomenon in the world than Madonna speaking about her work, worldviews or life. A thoughtful, revealing or interesting interview with Madonna is a literal impossibility. I'd rather listen to Michael Jackson talk about his love for children or observe Prince mute.

So you’re saying you hate Madonna, R182. OK. You can do that. Hate her. No one really cares.

But that's not what I said R183. I don't hate her music or her art. But she's a monumentally stupid woman. I can't stand to hear her speak. Not one word.

Oh Lord...this one!!!!

David Bowie taking Mark Goodman and MTV to task for not showing black artists more often on MTV.

Jackass Jesse Eisenberg being interviewed by silly, ditzy girl

[Quote] If I were Cara, I'd have told that sow to choke on Satan's cock before storming out.

Well that certainly would have made for a more interesting interview 🤣

This rather cringeworthy, trainwreck interview between Isaac Chotiner of the New Yorker and Bret Easton Ellis! Oh, my!

[quote] You've obviously never been in this position. Cara did nothing wrong.

Richard Madden doesn’t agree with you.

Robert Downey Jr interview where he walked out. He acts like such a pompous ass

R191 because he didn't want to talk about his druggie past for the 50th time?

leslie mann and Courtney love should both go jump in the lake of fugness.

UGH

LOL at R189. BEE, I know you read DL - you are such an intellectual lightweight.

That time Barbara Walters asked Katharine Hepburn if she owned a dress and Hepburn responded along the lines of, “Yes, I’ll wear it to your funeral” was pretty amazing

Toure was useless with Courtney Love. He couldn’t get a conversation going. She actually threw him heaps of openings which he ignored.

Alec Balding vs. Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic concert conductor in 2011.

Fuck, Alec Baldwin of course.

Arsenio Hall interviewing Madonna during her “Blonde Ambition” era. She was listless and weird, and was trying hard to be funny and outrageous but everything fell flat. It even seemed racist, especially when she handed Hall a huge gold and diamond ring, the sort that rappers of the period were wearing.

[Quote] especially when she handed Hall a huge gold and diamond ring, the sort that rappers of the period were wearing.

Awkward 😐

R199 what I found awkward about that interview was her bringing up the rumors that he was dating Paula Abdul. He seemed very embarrassed/uncomfortable.

Dick Cavett vs. Tennessee Williams

Whenever this thread pops up, and the awkward celebrity interviews threads have been numerous, I always interject this:

Once upon a time in the 80s, Whoopi had a talk show that played on UHF stations across the nation. She produced it through her One Ho production company.

When Whoopi was good, she was very good. Her interview of Carol Burnett was one of the finest conversations with Carol and Carol has been interviewed a lot. It was deep, it was nuanced. It was superb television. Night after night it was Whoopi giving people a different perspective of their favorite performers.

Then IT happened. It was a train wreck. It was a guest who did not know Whoopi. It is a guest Whoopi kinda knew BUT ...

Whoopi interviewing Alexander Haig was both JAW DROPPING and HILARIOUS at the same time.

It started with," Alexander Haig, Nixon bla bla bla, Ford bla bla bla, Reagan bla bla bla, I think I'll call you BIG AL."

It went down hill fast.

WHOOPI, RELEASE THE BIG AL INTERVIEW!!!!

The interview with The Bad Fergie.

Hahaha, Australian 60 Minutes is so trashy.

The news anchor at r7 - at Fox Philadelphia? - is so funny!

The thing about these is that except for the rare cases where the interviewers are just obnoxious (like on Australian 60 Minutes), I feel sorry for the interviewer rather than the interview subject.

I never understand why celebrities agree to be interviewed and then are combatative with the interviewer. Saying politely "I can't answer that question" or "I won't answer that kind of question" is fine, but trying to outfox your interviewer or freaking out at him/her seems ridiculous.

Chris Matthew was the awkward one while interviewing Michael Che.

Madonna is always a terrible interview subject. She is always belligerent and imperious.

her name is on jeff Epstein's black book....look it up,,,yep, our miss love, creep.

Father of the year Jerry Lewis schools Joan Rivers and a child care expert on how to raise children. Woo boy.

Joan Crawford interview with BBC,1957 Her stare was so fixed and intense felt like she was going to burn a hole between his eyes! He's arrogant and brazen with his questions, but his insolent interjections and awkward shoulder touching (2:42) made the whole thing uncomfortable.

And Joan Crawford in her first televised interview from 1956. Again with the bizarre hand behaviour. The interviewer shakes her hand, holds onto it and puts it in his lap. All I could think was let go of her hand already!

Wow, r212 / r213 -- you are REALLY empathetic with Joan's problems.

You do know that by all accounts she was an incredible bitch, right? And not just to her children...

Anthony Perkins interview with Mike Wallace from 1958. It was like he was on trial or something. Did he really have to clarify these silly stories of him eating spaghetti with his hands or dumping a bucket of water over Shirley Temples head, whether true or not it's ridiculous that Perkins felt he needed to justify himself.

Garr and Letterman are good friends R166 and their interviews were purposely uncomfortable because they were both in on the joke. She was one of the last guests he had on his show and he graciously walked her to her seat because she had a hard time due to her multiple sclerosis and a brain aneurysm she had suffered 2 years prior.

Perkins never achieved the superstardom that Wallace predicted. But he did have an interesting career playing misfits and oddballs.

Barbara WAWA interviewing a straight married Calvin Klein in the Hamptons and asking him about homoerotic advertising.

Not so much a interview but I heard on here that zach levi was harrasing yvonne strahovski on the set of chuck. Never saw chuck but love her in the handmaids tale. She's way more talented than elisabeth moss in my opinion. Much more charisma. She should be the Australian leading lady of Hollywood.

Anyway they used to to these chuck fan conventions (not comic con) nerd hq and they are so cringey! I find all these fan question so awkward and embarrassing.

ANY interview with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields

He does not like to be asked about his private life. Or comment on his 'Identity.'

Sleater-Kinney's interview with Nardwuar in 2015 was awful, mainly because aloof, dog-faced cunt Carrie Brownstein was being an aloof, dog-faced cunt.

Piers Morgan vs. Robert Blake

The Robert Blake/Tom Snyder interviews were epic.

Jerry Lewis. Really awkward!

Charlton Heston walks out on an interview with Michael Moore, and it’s in Heston’s own house!

Re r185, Tom Ford era Gucci was the best.

These 2 confront Nancy Grace about all the shit she has said and done over the years and she can't handle anymore and leaves.

[Quote] Anyway they used to to these chuck fan conventions (not comic con) nerd hq and they are so cringey! I find all these fan question so awkward and embarrassing.

I think it's like that at most conventions.

I've never been to a convention. What kind of embarrassing and awkward questions are asked?