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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 in addition impolite, abrasive, and conceited.”
“Stepping into, I knew that I needed to tread rigorously round them due to their popularity, however I used to be somewhat stunned 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 need to stroll round on eggshells whereas interacting with them and may very well be myself. Additionally, I am usually not the type of one that ever asks for footage, autographs, and many others., 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 individual in a very long time to have handled them like a standard individual and never as some diva or somebody who ought 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 bought as a celeb 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 newest attraction to see and forgetting that there was an precise individual beneath.
Are there some genuinely horrible folks in Hollywood leisure, and many others? Completely. Nevertheless it additionally taught me to not at all times choose a ebook by its cowl, and a variety of occasions when well-known folks come throughout as abrasive, it’s kind of of a protection mechanism.”