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“I labored for the primary time with a significant A-Record expertise a few years in the past after I was first beginning out. They (making an attempt to stay gender impartial in order to not give an excessive amount of away) have fairly the popularity for being phenomenally gifted but additionally impolite, abrasive, and smug.”
“Entering into, I knew that I needed to tread fastidiously round them due to their popularity, however I used to be slightly shocked by how not impolite they have been. … As a result of they have been fairly pleasant with me from the get-go, I did not should stroll round on eggshells whereas interacting with them and could possibly be myself. Additionally, I am usually not the form of one who ever asks for footage, autographs, and so on., in order that helped.
A pair weeks in, we had a quiet second collectively, and so they broke down in entrance of me. At first, I believed to myself, ‘Oh shit, I am fucked,’ however these have been tears of pleasure. I used to be the primary particular person in a very long time to have handled them like a traditional particular person and never as some diva or somebody who must be positioned on a pedestal.
They opened up about the truth that they loved performing as an artwork kind however hated a lot of the pageantry and a focus they obtained as a celeb and far of their abrasive persona got here from years of being exploited by individuals who they assumed to be pals and feeling like a ‘zoo animal’ every time they have been out and about with individuals treating them like they have been the newest attraction to see and forgetting that there was an precise particular person beneath.
Are there some genuinely horrible individuals in Hollywood leisure, and so on? Completely. Nevertheless it additionally taught me to not at all times choose a e-book by its cowl, and a variety of instances when well-known individuals come throughout as abrasive, it is a bit of a protection mechanism.”
