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

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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

I don't think it will have done her any harm with her target audience, particularly if JG is backing her up.

I also very much doubt that she was paid £5million (as suggested by the TV presenters) to appear in a film with a $12 million budget.

Sorry $5 million

OP YABU

excellent link lemon

I didn't have a good opinion of Cara before this interview. I am American, I'm sure we are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but this young lady was treated with malicious condescension from beginning to end. The anchors were truly awful...every single question and assertion they made was inane and insulting. They called her Carla, asked her if she read the book since she obviously doesn't read because she's so "busy" (twirling around like an airhead on a runway I guess is what they were inferring), asked her if she focuses better when she's busy unlike during this interview where she has nothing to focus on except answering simple questions and they implied she can't even do that, told her she wasn't excited about the movie, told her she needed a nap and a Red Bull, and then suddenly told her they were ending the interview as if their abominable behavior was her fault. This may have been the worst "hosting" I've ever seen. She responded graciously. Yes, she was perplexed at the naked hostility coming from all three, I think we would all be. She handled their weird hostility very well. I thought the anchors were overbearing and obnoxious. If her crime was rolling her eyes, good grief, their behavior was overtly loathsome.

No feather, I'm American and on her side :)

I'm another one who had no particular opinion of her before but like her now. I love the way the irritation flickers so clearly across her face!

This is a tricky one, overall though I think the newscasters were far more unprofessional. Cara did contribute by being a bit snippy though. I think it was an example of cultural differences gone bad. This is a small local tv station in Sacramento and I doubt they've had much experience interviewing international actors.

I just think they took her Britishness for being snobby and it almost seems like they went into the interview with this attitude in place, even the first question was asking in a goading manner. They are likely used to interviewing happy smiley American actors so a non smiley-faced British actor might have thrown them. They didn't seem well prepared either. I could have come up with better questions with a minute's notice not having read the book or seen the movie.

Having said that, if she wants to develop an acting career and that will entail interviews, she needs to get better at handling asidine questions.

I agree that both sides don't come off well. However, if Cara wants to continue acting she needs to understand that press junkets are about being asked the same questions a million times in a day.

Jennifer Lawrence and other big stars went through the same gauntlet and maintained their professionalism. I know she said she was being sarcastic but it does the movie no good.

I think she's probably answered inane questions a hundred times before but it was their tone and general sneeriness this time. Not surprisingly the local rag in Sacramento have not come out in her favour.

Sometimes it needs someone like Cara to shake up these lazy interviewers, as much as she has to show she is interested and engaged, so do they. She's young, she was somewhat puzzled at the tone of the interview and when is it ever sensible to have three interviewers and one interviewee. besides which, I like her eyebrows and I'm just shallow

YANBU but generally speaking she comes across like an over privileged, entitled little brat. She's only 4 years younger than me, when I was 22 I got patronised plenty for far less money and status as a reward. I managed not to behave like a surly teenager, amazingly enough.

Asking the actors if they've read the book is quite a common question as often they have not. Something to do with not wanting the book to influence their interpretation of the character.

By the same token the journalists conducting the interview were oddly arsey. Don't think it was anything to do with not getting the "British sense of humour" though as Cara wasn't actually funny.

I really don't understand people saying 'ooh haha it's just British sarcasm'. I'm probably one of the most sarcastic people I know but I found her outright rude. I completely agree that the questions they asked her were asinine but a far better way to show up the reporters would have been to reply politely and to point this out at the end. Instead she just comes across as a rude, surly Brit.

They were really, really rude to her. Her response was fine. The 'it's you' was the British humour she's referring to and I think it's clear they didn't get it! But that might be because they just being deliberately rude anyway even before she said it, so they chose not to take it in a jokey way. I can't believe their rudeness tbh, I've never seen anything like it!

She was quite surly and the sarcasm at the start of each response was off. Felt unnecessary and they didn't get it. The time delay didn't help.

The it's you was misinterpreted as you are irritating me.

The presenters reminded me of those men who tell you to 'smile' in the street and then get pissed when you show some irritation in response.

Good on her, I thought she handled them brilliantly. They were rude and patronising.

She's mentioned she's no less enthusiastic, with a chuckle mentioning it's the morning, only to get a:

"You do seem a bit irritated"

I think the anchor is lucky not have been asked to explain that comment by Cara. Plus, if an interviewer can't even have the decency to learn your name prior to an interview...

I think she was attempting to be funny, I winged it, then laughing. but the time delay and the fact that they kept cutting her off and not listening to her didnt help.

Thank you op! I thought she was vile! They were pretty stupid but she was rude from the off.

OP, you got her name wrong in the thread title

Good response by the books writer defending her. Casual sexism at its worst. Good for looking through YouTube for other car crash interviews though....Samuel L Jackson springs to mind

when they asked her if she'd read the book, she could have said ''sorry? I think I misheard" with a smile. I have done that when I'm patronised (and I'm still patronised with two decades on Cara).

Agree T-recing, the anchors were so rude.

Just because seo one is in the public eye doesn't mean they're brilliantly chipper and enthusiastic interviewees. She's a model not a TV personality.