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To think Cara Delevingne was really quite rude in this interview?

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CelestialGreen · 29/07/2015 23:09

Okay so it's a DM link (sorry - I know for that alone I'm BU!).

But AIBU to think Cara Delevingne was really quite rude in this interview?

I was quite shocked really. She's clearly irritated because they got her name wrong, but to pass her rudeness off as 'British humour' is doing a real disservice to us Brits.

It wasn't humour, she comes across as very 'entitled' in MN speak and as if the interviewers are beneath her.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3178925/Cara-Delevingne-responds-TV-anchors-slammed-awkward-interview.html#article-3178925

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GwendolynMoon · 30/07/2015 12:15

I have mixed feelings on this. I find, using op's own word, the sense of 'entitlement' that people/the media etc can have towards actors quite weird sometimes. This sense that they have chosen to be an actor and court celebrity and so they should at all times and during all interviews and press conferences be enthusiastic and cheerful and we/the media can demand that of them because 'we' make them and give them their special status and they earn so much that they have no right to complain.

I'm not saying I agree with rudeness, and obviously in this instance Cara D could have been more polite and less annoyed by the anchors (although personally I don't know if I would manage that in the face of this type of US-presenter that seriously grates me) but I think how invested people are in actors' behavior is a bit odd. Probably haven't articulated this very well. As you were.... Smile

doomy · 30/07/2015 12:28

I got the impression she was totally confused by the whole thing (as was I, the questions where unclear, the woman anchor was too busy talking to be clear and the implication that Cara wasn't as chirpy as she'd been on a British talk show was ridiculous. I assume they mean the Graham Norton show? In which case the stars get to meet in the Green room beforehand and it is a 'chatty and joky on the sofa' format rather than a largish group of anchors ganging up on an person in a distant studio. They made no attempt to make her feel welcome so of course she was uncomfortable. Wouldn't you have been? I got an impression of Cara being totally puzzled and a little insulted.

trufflesnout · 30/07/2015 12:41

They were twats and I don't think Cara handled it well. Saying you hate something followed by "yeah, no, just kidding" is not sarcasm. I think the 'sarcastic Brit' label has been applied here to make her seem a bit quirky - but I don't think she used any actual sarcasm at all - apart from, perhaps, the initial response about not reading the book.

HuftysTrain · 30/07/2015 13:11

Both parties were at fault. They were incredibly passive aggressive towards her - presumably they were implying she was too thick to read the book or something? Why on earth even ask that? Also commenting on a person not being very cheerful is hardly a good way to endear yourself. Like when I was a teenager and my father would ask me out of the blue "are you in a bad mood about something?" I wasn't but I am now!

Anyway, that aside, Cara D makes me cringe. She's not funny. She's embarrassing. But she thinks she's funny in a way that I suppose a lot of teenagers do (yes I know she's 22 but she seems younger). Her sarcasm isn't humour and her publicity people need to have a word with her. It's all a game and she need to be told how to play it. You can still show your personality - just don't be a dick.

runlulurun · 30/07/2015 14:22

I haven't watched the clip, but read the mail story about it that was linked and unless it comes across very differently when watching it sounds like the anchors were very rude. I wish more people would behave grumpily to rude interviewers. Why should she be polite and smiley and gushy when they are being so rude?!

Yarp · 30/07/2015 14:28

They had an expectation about how she would behave which is perhaps based on her age and their norms (bland, people-pleasing). She was assertive.

swallowed · 30/07/2015 14:29

The presenters came across like morons.

I think she came across fine. She was just herself, not rude but not jollying along their bland, non funny, meaningless banter either.

Go Cara.

Yarp · 30/07/2015 14:32

She's an intelligent confident young woman. They can't handle it.

swallowed · 30/07/2015 14:34

They were rude as fuck once they cut her off too. Totally unprofessional and uncalled for,

The presenters come across as amateur.

FujimotosElixir · 30/07/2015 14:34

Reporters talk to lots of different people in air on live TV ,everyday!!! It's tricky ,if you think someone getting your name wrong is reason enough to be rude to that level you're a narcissistic, overly arrogant ass clown.

Yarp · 30/07/2015 14:34

This thread reminds me a little bit of another a while back about an crassly-conducted interview with Sinead O'Connor which opened with a comment about her mental health. Some women show it (gasp!) when they feel have been patronised

Letsallgotobed · 30/07/2015 14:35

Eugh I can't stand her.

Yarp · 30/07/2015 14:35

Fujimotos. That's not what irritated her, IMO

BastardGoDarkly · 30/07/2015 19:59

I think she was biting down on her...... Yeah get fucked. When the anchor at the end said.... How about we let you have a nap then? Go have a red bull how about that?.... I thought she showed great restraint.

Jen1610 · 30/07/2015 20:33

Wow those anchors were so rude and patronising to her. No they were in the wrong not her.

Esmum07 · 30/07/2015 20:53

Both sides didn't come out looking great but, as a few people have said, the tickets for the film should go up as more people will have heard of it and some people will want to see just how good or bad CD was in it.

As for the 'journalists'...they'll still be working on Good Day Sacramento. Bet that's an aspirational channel to work for. It's not exactly the premier TV show by the look of the presenters.

mooth · 30/07/2015 21:57

She acted like a typical passive aggressive teenager. No surprises. She wasn't doing anything original. Her modelling 'persona' I.e. The image she projects on camera is based on the same approach.

Featherbluedot · 30/07/2015 23:08

Would I be mistaken in thinking most posts on here for Cara are from the Uk and those against from the US possibly.

I definitely think Cara handled it as well as she could in the light of those bumbling interviewers. She handled that dreadful comment re taking a nap and a red bull pretty much as any normal person would tbh.

Featherbluedot · 30/07/2015 23:19

I agree with doomy

lemonpoppyseed · 31/07/2015 07:54

An interesting take on this from John Green: medium.com/@johngreen/but-did-you-read-the-book-2e2dad0ebab1

ProjectGainsborough · 31/07/2015 08:02

I didn't really engage with the concept of Cara D before but based on this, I like her. The interviewers were

Toe-curling. It made me want to take her side. She was a bit childish in places, but she is really young - she was mostly pretty restrained.

Feather interesting point. I wonder whether U.S. viewers saw it differently?

Roussette · 31/07/2015 08:10

Yes, she has gone up in my estimation a lot. That article is interesting lemon especially that her male co-star is asked "when did you read the book" as opposed to Cara who was always asked "did you read the book"

She is her own person, we should salute her. Whilst she has to do this endless round of PR for the film, no one, but no one, should have to accept rudeness and ridiculue. When she dared to use a bit of english irony to answer yet another stupid and inane question, she was told to go off and get a nap and a red bull. Unprofessional and insulting and I'm surprised those anchors have still got their jobs.

Good on her I say, I've always liked what I know of her, but now I think she's great. I have a DD a similar age, I would like to think she stood up for herself too (I think she would!)

NoahVale · 31/07/2015 08:51

i dont think the time delay helped,
but the interviewers were absolutely foul, particularly afterwards when the woman was so bitchy about her.
the man said he thought she was being funny/humorous but the woman wasnt hearing any of it.

Funnily enough my DD was just talking about her the previous day, how funny she is, how she face bombs people's photos, I said, People will get fed up with her, and low and behold, very next day, there is this article.

hopefully most people will side with her

chickenfuckingpox · 31/07/2015 08:59

just watched it there is a clear delay in between the questioning and her answers which is a buffering issue not her being "tired" as professionals they should be used to that they also cut her interview short slagged her off afterwards and the questions they asked her were just random and weird

they looked like a bunch of amateurs and she just looked bemused

Yarp · 31/07/2015 09:04

lemon

I liked that piece you linked