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First, I’ll begin with my absolute favourite, which is that this 2017 interview of director David Lynch speaking about his Woody Woodpecker collectible figurines. The story goes that in 1981, Lynch noticed 5 Woody Woodpecker toys hanging up at a gasoline station and “rescued” them. “I screech on the brakes, I do a U-turn, return, and I purchase them and I save their lives,” he recounted. “I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob, and Dan, and so they had been my boys and so they had been in my workplace. They had been my pricey pals for some time, however sure traits began popping out and so they turned not so good.” The interviewer famous that Lynch then appeared “straight forward” and mentioned “with a grim finality,” “They aren’t in my life anymore.” To which I say…WTF???
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Not weird sufficient for you? Let’s discuss Robert Pattinson’s GQ profile, the place he talks about his enterprise concept for “pasta which you’ll be able to maintain in your hand,” which he is named Piccolini Cuscino. He decides to attempt to make it for the interviewer as a result of “possibly if I say it in GQ, possibly, like, a accomplice will simply come alongside.” He then exhibits the interviewer an outdated field of cornflakes, an enormous novelty lighter, 9 packs of presliced cheese, and sauce. He places on latex gloves and bends tinfoil right into a form of sphere that he dumps sugar, crumbled-up cornflakes, sauce, and the presliced cheese into. He tries to prepare dinner pasta within the microwave, then takes it out and says, “No concept if it’s cooked or not,” however places it within the foil anyhow.
“I imply, there’s completely no likelihood that is gonna work. Completely none,” he tells the interviewer, then tops his creation with half a bun, which he burns a “PC” into with the novelty lighter, by accident burning his hand within the course of. He then wraps it up with extra foil, squeezes it just a few instances, and decides to place it in what seems to be a microwave, however he claims is an oven, for 10 minutes. Based on the interviewer, whereas within the oven/microwave, “a lightning bolt erupts” and “Pattinson geese like somebody outdoors has opened hearth,” then crouches and giggles “because the oven throws off stray glints of sunshine and sound.” The oven/microwave goes darkish and he stares at it, saying, “Yeah, I believe I’ve to depart that alone. However that may be a Piccolini Cuscino.”
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Ezra Miller has change into embroiled in controversy over the previous couple of years, however earlier than all that information broke, a GQ interviewer took a visit to their farm in Vermont for what turned out to be an especially odd interview. Within the interview, Miller is getting ready to assist one among their goats give delivery, then says their band is engaged on a steel track about it. They then sing/yell for the interviewer, “GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, IT IS COMING, IT IS COMING! GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, YOU CANNOT RUN, YOU CANNOT HIDE, IT’S GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, NO ESCAPING, NO ESCAPING, GOAT BIRTH!”…whereas fist-pumping.
Miller additionally tells the story of a guide report they did in first grade. They selected the Stephen King novel Cujo after which did a particular mission on it: “I purchased an enormous stuffed-animal canine, and I coated it in blood. I made a tape recording, and I attached the play button of the tape recorder to the canine’s paw… The concept was that you simply’d push the paw and also you’d hear, out of the voice of this bloody stuffed canine, my dramatic studying of Cujo.” Afterward, “the instructor very politely mentioned, ‘Ezra, we will put this within the closet till the tip of the day, after which you are going to need to take it house.” Miller additionally says they’ll “sense” when cellphones are round. And at one level, Miller tells a fan, “I’m Ezra. However you’ll be able to name me Lil Child, or Candy Bitch.”
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Johnny Depp’s Rolling Stone profile is really one of many wildest profiles I’ve ever learn. In it, Depp says (apparently credibly) that his outdated roommate was a financial institution robber, that he as soon as gave his entire home scabies, that he thinks there must be a Titanic remake shot solely in a tub, and that planes ought to have sprayed LSD over Iraq to seize Osama bin Laden. “You get a bunch of fucking planes, large fucking planes that spray shit, and also you drop LSD 25. You saturate the fucking place. Each single factor will stroll out of their cave smiling, glad,” he informed the interviewer.
At one level, he breaks out a guitar and performs “Wonderwall.” The interviewer additionally has to shimmy over the fence to get out of his property as a result of Depp cannot work out the way to open the gate. However the bulk of the interview is about Depp’s monetary troubles, noting his extravagant spending, like $30,000 a month on wine and the time he spent $3 million capturing Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes into the air utilizing a cannon. Although Depp claims, “It was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky” — it was truly $5 million — and “It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine, as a result of it was way more.”
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After the entire “changing Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2” controversy, Howard took up an attention-grabbing interest: making an attempt to show that 1×1=2 as an alternative of 1. Based on the interviewer, “He started writing down his logic, in a language of his personal devising that he calls Terryology. He wrote ahead and backward, with each his proper and left arms, generally utilizing symbols he made up that look international, if not alien, to maintain his concepts secret till they may very well be patented.” He and his then-wife, Miranda Pak, started shopping for scissors, wire, magnets, and sheets of plastic, then spending as much as 17 hours a day chopping out and becoming a member of the plastic in ways in which had been meant to show his numerous mathematical theories.
The interviewers word that the room they’re in is totally full of advanced constructing block–like plastic shapes which are tied collectively or magnetically caught collectively — which Howard apparently loves as a lot as his personal baby. Howard tells the interviewer, “That is the final century that our youngsters will ever have been taught that one instances one is one. They gained’t need to develop up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they’ll know that one instances one equals two. We’re about to indicate a brand new reality. The true common math. And the proof is in these items. I’ve created the items that make up the movement of the universe. […] They inform the reality from inside.”
Howard’s relationship with Pak can also be weird within the interview. Pak is in his home throughout it, and the 2 appear to be collectively, however the interviewer later discovers that they’ve filed for divorce and have not lived collectively shortly. When Howard leaves the room, Pak talks about him, saying that he would not assist out round the home and she or he “most likely go away[s] him 30 instances a month.” She additionally says they do not have a standard life and have not often gone to eating places collectively. “We’ve by no means been to the grocery store collectively. We’ve by no means been to the films. I’ve by no means gotten a present from him. […] After which each minute that he has free, it’s to do that,” she says, referring to the plastic objects. “I assist him, chopping, drawing and placing issues collectively. I’ve developed a slight type of agoraphobia these days. I by no means exit. I’ve no pals right here. I really feel like Rapunzel, you already know, caught in a penthouse with my child.”
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I am actually jealous of the interviewer for this Chris Evans GQ profile that was executed earlier than Captain America got here out, wherein he flirts closely with the author and principally brings her into his internal circle for just a few days. She even stays at his home after getting drunk, performs a “leap over the pool desk” recreation, and escapes by means of a window to attempt to get house.
Chris’s quotes aren’t all that weird, although he does say that “the instances in [his] life when [he’s] been happiest are the instances when [he’s] seen, like, a sundown” or a waterfall, and appears to have a robust affinity for top fives and making “jerk-off gestures when he was sick of listening to himself discuss.”
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One other enjoyable long-form GQ profile the place the interviewer principally simply will get drunk and has a wild time with a star (excuse me, the place can I join that job?) is that this one with Channing Tatum, the place he takes the journalist “tenting.” One revelation from the interview is that Tatum likes to do what he calls “spontaneous house invasion” on his pals, like Marlon Wayans, whom he shocked by exhibiting up at his pool bare.
Another highlights: They meet quite a lot of unusual characters, together with a person on the bar named “Abnormal Tom,” who says he is known as that as a result of “the city already had a Psycho Tom and a Vietnam Tom.” Abnormal Tom additionally exhibits them his spouse, of whom he says, “She had most cancers. She’s in remission now, however she misplaced her tooth and her tit. She was once constructed like a brick shithouse.” They get dropped at a random man’s home to remain (the good friend of two guys they meet at a bar) however resolve to sleep within the city’s deserted jail as an alternative, although they find yourself sleeping in Snuggies in some bushes outdoors after Tatum decides {that a} creepy model contained in the jail cell is simply too scary to sleep subsequent to.
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I am additionally obsessive about this interview with Miles Teller the place he makes the interviewer lower pork into tiny items for him, saying, “I haven’t got again tooth. I actually have 4 tooth.” The interviewer additionally blasts his look a bit, noting that he says, “I used to be fascinated with that in the present day, how I most likely assume I am better-looking than the general public thinks I’m” with amusing, “prefer it’s humorous that he is willed himself into the next tier of male magnificence by means of limitless confidence.”
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Again in 2022, Donald Glover actually interviewed himself for {a magazine} profile. His solutions aren’t *that* bizarre, however there are nonetheless just a few gems inside, like when he asks himself whom he fashions his profession after, and he replies “Willy Wonka.” However the strangeness of the interview principally comes from disagreeing with himself and asking himself questions that he then appears to get upset had been requested, like when he asks himself, “Are you afraid of Black girls?” and Glover replies with, “Why are you asking me that?” and “I really feel such as you’re utilizing Black girls to query my Blackness.”
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You gotta love this notorious Vulture interview with Quincy Jones, who did NOT maintain again when it got here to speaking about his fellow musicians and the music business normally. First, he claimed that Michael Jackson “stole lots of songs” and was “grasping.” He additionally mentioned, “Rock ain’t nothing however a white model of rhythm and blues,” and the Beatles had been “the worst musicians on this planet. They had been no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass participant I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even discuss it.” He additionally mentioned he used to hang around with Donald Trump and known as him “a loopy motherfucker. Restricted mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him.” Jones was pals with Marlon Brando, as properly, and claimed that Brando would “fuck something. Something! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”
He additionally spoke negatively about T-Ache and Bono’s music (although he known as Bono “my brother”). However probably the most weird half? Jones mentioned he knew “an excessive amount of,” together with who killed JFK, additionally alluding to understanding Hillary Clinton’s secrets and techniques and the Invoice Cosby allegations earlier than they had been made, saying, “We are able to’t discuss this in public, man.” In truth, he makes that declare just a few instances, which makes me marvel…what does Jones know???
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RuPaul as soon as informed a narrative about watching a person drown — to us at BuzzFeed, no much less. “I bear in mind as soon as I had this place that neglected the Hudson River, and I noticed this man on a sailboat and it had capsized, and I went to the telephone considering, I’ve bought to name somebody. However then I assumed, What’s the perfect factor I can do? what? I am gonna pray for this individual. I am gonna ship them loving power.” Because the BuzzFeed piece factors out, RuPaul doesn’t say whether or not the person survived.
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In an interview with Males’s Journal, Mark Wahlberg — who was purported to be on one of many planes that crashed on 9/11 — mentioned, “If I used to be on that aircraft with my youngsters, it would not have went down prefer it did. There would have been lots of blood in that first-class cabin after which me saying, ‘OK, we will land someplace safely, don’t be concerned.'”
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Sean Penn additionally bought fairly labored up about 9/11 in an interview with Selection, saying that if he had been president on the time, “I’d have let White Home counsel know that they’re on trip. I’m not consulting with them. If I’ve to go to jail, I’ll go, however I’m going to kill them. I’m killing everybody that did this,” he mentioned. As a result of apparently Penn is a few form of Liam Neeson–in–Taken–fashion vigilante.
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This one’s small, nevertheless it at all times makes me crack up. In 2016, Child Cudi mentioned of his music profession up to now: “Individuals assume that I’ve peaked. I haven’t even gotten a f—ing nut off but,” he mentioned. “I’ve been pre-cumming for the final eight years. I haven’t even ejaculated a full spew but. So motherf—rs higher get ready.”
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And at last, this one may not be fairly as weird as the remaining, nevertheless it’s nonetheless one among my favourite interview quotes of all time as a result of it is simply so humorous and random. In a 2009 interview with Jesse Eisenberg, he says, “Individuals on the road generally will say imply issues to me,” and the interviewer asks for an instance. Eisenberg says, “I get known as Napoleon Dynamite as a result of I’ve curly hair. I dwell in New York Metropolis and I trip a bicycle. I at all times bike down Ninth Avenue, and there’s this child who goes to highschool there named Abraham. Each time I move him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his pals snort. That was a effective film, however I wasn’t in it.”
The interviewer then asks how Eisenberg responds to the boy. Eisenberg replies, “I say, ‘Please, Abraham, I’m not that man.” I simply cannot get previous the picture of film star Jesse Eisenberg being bullied by a baby named Abraham and nonetheless being painstakingly well mannered to him.
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