Why do actors love to play practical jokes?
There's a profile in the NYTimes tonight of Matthew Rhys, who is supposedly one of the nicest actors around--but it says he loves playing practical jokes on the set.
I can understand someone who is deeply angry like Mel Gibson loving to play practical jokes on his co-workers (and he does--he was supposed to be a bit of a terror in that regard, back when he used to get work), or Ellen Degeneres (who is a deeply angry person), but I don't understand nice guys like Rhys and George Clooney loving to do it. It is deeply hostile behavior--you humiliate people in front of others, and then if they don't laugh at themselves after the prank, they look even worse.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 28, 2020 1:06 PM
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I had a classmate pull a chair away when I sat down and when I fell on the floor it really hurt my tailbone but I brushed it off and laughed and acted like it didn't bother me, but it did. I think it's stupid to make people dislike you by doing something like that when you have to work together.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 28, 2020 6:53 AM
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It’s juvenile and sometimes cruel exercise of power. Although Matthew Rhys seems otherwise lovely.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 28, 2020 11:51 AM
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Practical jokes aren't always synonymous with anger. "It is deeply hostile behavior" - not necessarily. Cruel ones, yes. There are lighthearted funny ones that my neighbor does to me and, when I think about it, I might do one to him. They've never been the least bit cruel - juvenile/silly, yes - but cruel, no.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 28, 2020 12:04 PM
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I have never been able to STAND practical jokes--even reading about them. They are so crude.
Call me a Southern Lady if you will.....because I am one.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 28, 2020 1:06 PM
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