[ SECRET POST #3079 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3079 ⌋

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Comments

[othellia]

Ummmmm, no. He's there to talk about his work. It's not a "symbiotic relationship." Interviewers aren't Nice Guys entitled to juicy personal stories just because they're helping out with the press tour.

[recessional]

This.

[lirren]

And especially when the actors are often contractually obligated to do those promotional interviews. They don't have a choice about going to the interview, but I think RDJ was absolutely within his rights to walk out of an interview that was not about the movie he was promoting.

[othellia]

This. OP is acting like RDJ is the director/producer of the movie vs just one of many actors under contract. And I highly doubt that complete forfeiture of personal privacy was included in whatever papers he signed.

[kamino_neko]

He's famous. For a WHOLE lot of people, that's enough to say that he did, in fact, forfeit any privacy or boundaries.

[othellia]

That doesn't mean it's right though. Or that he should be judged by people like OP for what he did.

[kamino_neko]

Oh, I agree with you...just bitching a bit about an argument I've gotten into a lot. (And the related 'they're famous, so anything they do is only for the publicity'.)

[othellia]

Ah, gotcha.

But yeah, it actually makes me kind of happy when I go onto an IMDB/wiki page of an actor I like and it has almost no personal information about them. Or like actresses with unknown birthdays.

[leisuretime]

People can say that, but that doesn't make them correct.

[a_potato]

That's an attitude that I absolutely hate. It's incredibly dehumanizing (and it also seems like a lot of people who think that way are almost...resentful of the fact that some people are famous. There's this really weird angry streak in the way they present it).

[(Anonymous)]

Steve Martin wrote a piece about this phenomenon for The New Yorker, "Paparazzi of Plato": http://www.geocities.ws/s00keyjane/plato.html

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt someone of RDJ's status can be roped into doing promotional tours if he doesn't want to, though. The rest of the cast, maybe. But RDJ? Nah.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, you have no idea how contracts works do you?

[(Anonymous)]

I understand that there are a lot of negotiable parts to one and someone like RDJ almost certainly has a shit hot agent to negotiate hard on his behalf. Acting like he's some helpless n00b actor who has no choices just doesn't fit with reality.

[(Anonymous)]

He's still under contract. He might be the biggest name in the franchise, but that doesn't mean he's not under contract. Promo/ramping up anticipation and hype is a huge part of making big budget action movies - no way is a company going to let its biggest star out of doing the promo route. You might be able to negotiate how much promo you do/where you go to a certain degree, but some promo is going to be non-negotiable.

Plus, Marvel and the Iron Man franchise are what made him as big as he is now - he was well known and liked before, maybe even A-list at various times, but Iron Man made him an action movie star and a household name. And they took a chance on him too - read up on how the director of Iron Man convinced Marvel to hire RDJ, and the contract/insurance shenanigans therein, then comeback and try to say that RDJ can negotiate away his contractual obligations.