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“I labored for the primary time with a serious A-Checklist expertise a few years in the past once I was first beginning out. They (attempting to stay gender impartial in order to not give an excessive amount of away) have fairly the fame for being phenomenally gifted but in addition impolite, abrasive, and boastful.”
“Getting into, I knew that I needed to tread rigorously round them due to their fame, however I used to be a bit of shocked by how not impolite they have been. … As a result of they have been somewhat 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 type of one that ever asks for photos, autographs, and so on., in order that helped.
A pair weeks in, we had a quiet second collectively, they usually broke down in entrance of me. At first, I assumed 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 standard particular person and never as some diva or somebody who needs to be positioned on a pedestal.
They opened up about the truth that they loved appearing as an artwork kind however hated a lot of the pageantry and a spotlight they acquired as a star and far of their abrasive persona got here from years of being exploited by individuals who they assumed to be mates and feeling like a ‘zoo animal’ at any time when they have been out and about with folks treating them like they have been the most recent attraction to see and forgetting that there was an precise particular person beneath.
Are there some genuinely horrible folks in Hollywood leisure, and so on? Completely. But it surely additionally taught me to not at all times choose a e-book by its cowl, and loads of occasions when well-known folks come throughout as abrasive, it’s kind of of a protection mechanism.”
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