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How NOT to conduct an interview with ROBERT DOWNEY JR
Oh for fucks sake. Sometimes I want to smack the hell out of my fellow "journalists" who make us all look like a bunch of bitter college prankster buffoons. Take for example this weak ass hack piece written by some choad named Seth Abramovitch over at Movie Line under the heading GREAT MOMENTS IN JUNKET HISTORY.
They post the opening snippet of a failed junket roundtable in which the first question gets lobbed in by someone who is either half retarded or a total douchebag. Let's listen in shall we?
First Journalist: I’ve got to ask. What do you think [Tropic Thunder Method actor] Lincoln O’Siris would think of Jamie’s performance in this?
Robert Downey Jr.: Next question.
First Journalist: Do you think he’d approve?
Robert Downey Jr.: I have no idea how to even begin answering that question. And by the way—I want to have a good time. I want to have a great time, just that one tied my fucking shoelaces together right off the bat. What else you got?
This is exactly why there is a revolving door for these assholes in the entertainment writing/reporting business. Good thing they used "First Journalist" and "Second Journalist" instead of their real names, or else they'd be the butt of jokes by 9 o' Clock tonight. To crib from Bale, what fucking amateurs. WTF kind of question was that? And to tag team with a buddy?
Weak.
I've got a feeling Abramovitch might have been Journo one or two - but I wouldn't set that in stone. Either way, the tone of the piece is one of indignant mocking at Downey and seems to think the question was a valid one. Let me set the record straight, asking an actor what his racially insensitive character from a previous film would have to say about his current black co-star AIN'T KOSHER, dickhole. It's an incredibly insensitive question that has racist undertones. And Downey's right - there's no way to answer it. It's a terrible question and he has every right to snark off at the douchenozzle who asked it, as well as the cockgobbler who followed up with "So I’ll kiss your ass and maybe it’ll be better."
Nice goin' guys. You've just illustrated why guys like me refuse to do roundtable interviews. They're filled with pinheads like yourselves.
They post the opening snippet of a failed junket roundtable in which the first question gets lobbed in by someone who is either half retarded or a total douchebag. Let's listen in shall we?
First Journalist: I’ve got to ask. What do you think [Tropic Thunder Method actor] Lincoln O’Siris would think of Jamie’s performance in this?
Robert Downey Jr.: Next question.
First Journalist: Do you think he’d approve?
Robert Downey Jr.: I have no idea how to even begin answering that question. And by the way—I want to have a good time. I want to have a great time, just that one tied my fucking shoelaces together right off the bat. What else you got?
This is exactly why there is a revolving door for these assholes in the entertainment writing/reporting business. Good thing they used "First Journalist" and "Second Journalist" instead of their real names, or else they'd be the butt of jokes by 9 o' Clock tonight. To crib from Bale, what fucking amateurs. WTF kind of question was that? And to tag team with a buddy?
Weak.
I've got a feeling Abramovitch might have been Journo one or two - but I wouldn't set that in stone. Either way, the tone of the piece is one of indignant mocking at Downey and seems to think the question was a valid one. Let me set the record straight, asking an actor what his racially insensitive character from a previous film would have to say about his current black co-star AIN'T KOSHER, dickhole. It's an incredibly insensitive question that has racist undertones. And Downey's right - there's no way to answer it. It's a terrible question and he has every right to snark off at the douchenozzle who asked it, as well as the cockgobbler who followed up with "So I’ll kiss your ass and maybe it’ll be better."
Nice goin' guys. You've just illustrated why guys like me refuse to do roundtable interviews. They're filled with pinheads like yourselves.
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Comment by Instant Udon on April 16, 2009 at 2:21am -
Either this journalist schemed up a plan to have Robert Downey Jr. overreact and skyrocket his pen-name; or this is a self-absorbed piece of trash journalist that thinks he's asking "the tough questions". Whatever the case, that was a dick move.
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Comment by Eden on April 15, 2009 at 1:49pm -
The guy that asked that question should go to hell. Then maybe the world will be a better place. The guy probably goes to klan meetings at sundays. Asshole.
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Comment by Kibblez on April 15, 2009 at 11:46am -
Both parties are at fault.
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Comment by Zev on April 15, 2009 at 9:56am -
He should've said "Never go full retard" considering the plot of his and Jaimes new movie 0_0
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Comment by TSweet7 on April 15, 2009 at 9:25am -
Wow, how did he even COME UP with a question like that? And the other guy was just plain rude and unprofessional.*sigh* Things like this make me glad I left that business. (Besides the fact that print journalism is going down the tank.)
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Comment by Chloe on April 15, 2009 at 8:09am -
They need to market some sort of small Christian Bale doll that one can pull out of ones pocket when someone says something as stupid as this.
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Comment by Palmer on April 14, 2009 at 6:15pm -
What kind of question is that, you ask?
A pretty f@#king stupid one.
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Comment by Bachattacks! on April 14, 2009 at 5:53pm -
Damn! what a Fucking Douche! Seriously, this guy is a idiot.
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Comment by MisterKeitel on April 14, 2009 at 2:33pm -
However, I have found in my experience as a writer doing interviews for small-time magazines and local indy, newspapers that sometimes the questions that the subject might find "odd" or "stupid" or even "infuriating" are the ones that open them up and get them to talking. If you can't get your interview subject to talk, then you really have no interview - and it doesn't really matter if they hate you afterwards or not. The important thing was that you were able to pry the words out of their mouths so you can write the story.
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Comment by slevin117 on April 14, 2009 at 2:15pm -
good, its not good that actors respond in ways like that but journalists shouldn't ask questions like that.
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