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

[CelestialGreen]

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

Argh- you nailed it! The interviewers really were the equivalent of the "you'd be pretty if you smiled" patronising stranger who says this to women in the street. I don't think Cara handled herself very well tbh but these interviewers were goady from the very get go.

She personifies 'entitled' as far as I am concerned. Interviewers also dicks. A bad combination all round.

Poor on both sides.

The interviewers were rude without a doubt, and the manner of the questions were a bit off, but the questions themselves weren't that inane - asking if she has read the book or if she had anything in common with the character - they are fairly standard questions. Cara would have shown them up much better by answering politely and professionally - she came across as rude and snarky in my view.

That said, I have personal experience of her behaving like a diva so I don't believe she was just misunderstood.

Poppylemonseed nails it. I don't see her Cara/Cala as rude. I think she is sticking up for herself and not being the vacuous pretty thing she was pigeon holed as. Didn't have an opinion but now have much respect for her. What I read on her face is puzzlement at the way the interview is panning out.

Interesting how people's perspectives differ.

I watched the interview and thought she looked tired, yes; she'd been up til probably the early hours from the premiere or whatever it was the night before and then they had her on early in the morning - but I have a lot of sympathy with that, I'm not a "morning person" either.

Getting her name wrong from the off is just hopeless. At least find out who you're talking to! Poor professionalism point 1.
They talked over her - could be a time delay on the link up but it's rude and they made no apology - poor professionalism point 2.
She was sarcastic - trying to be funny but in a deadpan way that didn't quite go over properly - don't think that counts as a lack of professionalism, more immaturity.
They asked her a godawful stupid convoluted question - she was taken aback because it took some thinking about and was pretty dim as questions go, IMO.
Then they started to bite - and she wasn't impressed but still tried to answer.
The ONLY mitigating point in the interview is that one of the anchors seemed to realise that she was being sarcastic, but he got shouted down by the other 2, especially the female anchor, who was determined that Cara was just "in a mood", and the bitching was entirely unprofessional.

Well I don't think anyone came out of it covered in glory, but my preference goes to the actress in terms of who handled it better, and the anchors were ruder than she was.

I thought they were shockingly rude to her. I looked up the full interviiew after reading a story about iit,, and expected to see her being rude as the sstory had stated. But they were awful

The worst part was the insult to the script, saying that the characters "all sounded like middle-aged scriptwriters".

I think they were trying to get a rise from her from the start, and put their little show Good Morning Whereeveritwas on tthe map or something. I felt very uncomfortable hearing their rudeness.

(couldn't care less about CD normally; definitely not a fan)

And the bottom line is she got the requisite amount of publicity.

The anchors were unbelievably rude! She just responded to them appropriately.

I thought she awful. That thing she did twice where she gave a sarcastic answer before her real answer was definitely rude - that's just a fact. Can you imagine it in a job interview scenario?!

Interviewer: Do you think you're the right person for this job?
Interviewee: No I think I'd be the worst person to ever do this job. No I mean I'm obviously the right person for the job because blah blah blah.
Interviewer: Do you have the right skills to help move this project forward?
Interviewee: No, I have no skils whatsoever, I don't even know why I'm here. No, I mean obviously I have skills...

It's rude. And pretty stupid and immature to be honest. Even her face is just sullen from the start.

All the interviewers were doing was actually highlighting that her behaviour was rude. They probably shouldn't have, because their job is just to carry on the facade, but they let their annoyance at her attitude get the better of them.

I think she was being, charmingly dry and British. Americans have always found our humour a little challenging.

She did it three times doodlebug! I watched the full interview. Three sarcastic answers followed by 'no, ..........' and then the real answer.

So the interviewers weren't very good, so they didn't show her enough respect big deal. She could have handled it a lot better.

A simple "i'm sorry, I think I must have misheard, I thought you asked me if I'd read the book ?" with a sweet smile............. I would have thought touché! if she'd handled it like that.

zerokaffe I'm not British and I lived in the UK for years. That is not what gives the British a rep for being funny.

sorry! zeroshift!

Americans have always found our humour a little challenging.
What? Those witless and humourless Americans who churn out endless funny series like 'The Big Bang Theory'?

I don't think they do find it ''challenging''. They loved The Office. They showed Green Wing and The Peep show over there. They show classics like fawlty towers on bbc America. These shows go down very well. The humour is clever though.

Giving three really sarcastic answers in a row isn't clever, nor is it representitive of british humour imo!

Basically, she was a knob and the interviewers were incredibly rude. It was a tie.

I can't stand her

The interviewers were rude and behaved worse overall but I wouldn't call her snippy sarcasm a wonderful example of dry, British wit because it wasn't.

Two types of ineptitude meet, is all. Neither side capable of retrieving the situation.
Of the two camps, I prefer the snipey actress and would, myself, struggle very much to have a sane interchange with those inane Sacramento peeps who seemed caffeined off their faces and as if they didn't have a brain cell between em.

two types of ineptitude! brilliant description.

Cara should have quipped back "think you've already drunk all the red bull"