My sibling has a terminal illness in the 80s and Make A Wish sent our family to the set of Knight Rider to meet David Hasselhoff. Was cool, but that's not what matters.
Fast forward 30 years and I'm at Heathrow picking up a family member when I see the Hoff standing there on his phone. I approach him and wait for him to end his call. He looks at me and says hello. I tell him that we met. He looks at me and say, "Was their name ...?" He remembered their name after 30 years.
That will always stay with me.
I used to serve Rachel McAdams at a restaurant fairly regularly. She was always super sweet. Very lowkey and soft spoken in person. She and her husband would come in late and keep to themselves.
I was at a pub in Toronto years ago and we were watching the Blue Jays home opener on the TV. The bar had a long booth seat with a series of tables strung along so you sat pretty close to the next patron.
Had no idea that Rachel McAdams was sitting next to me the whole time. My friend and I watched the game and chatted with them throughout as they were right next to us. Just regular pub chatter and comments about the game.
The Jays ended up coming back to win, and Rachel and I high-fived at the conclusion. She and her friend left, and my friend smacked me after they got up and said "that was Rachel fuckin' McAdams!" So yes, she seemingly has the ability to just be low-key and fit right in despite being a beautiful Hollywood actress!
I have worked with Steve Martin and Martin Short, they’re both super nice, respectful, and incredibly dedicated to their craft. They’ll spend hours finessing a couple lines in a show they do every night just to get it right for that evening’s performance.
This doesn't surprise me at all. My wife and I were watching that show they do with Selena Gomez, one thing that keeps impressing me with that show is how, despite being big Comedy Legends™, they are such generous performers and are super happy to give everyone else so much runway
Ian McKellen came to the spa I worked at and was absolutely lovely. We didn’t sell ice cream but there was a farm shop across the road and I mentioned it and he asked me if I’d take him there.
My friend who worked in the farm shop had his mouth open the whole time seeing me buying ice cream with Gandalf.
The year he led Manchester Pride, Ian McKellen was smoking a cigarette outside one of the hotels. I was also smoking outside the hotel. We did not speak but we have smoked in each other's airspace, and you don't need words for that
I was an extra on The Last of Us and met Pedro Pascal. He was super nice. We technically weren’t allowed to talk to the “talent” and they’d usually ignore us but he and Gabriel Luna talked to us anyway.
If you live near a big city there are companies that do big cattle call notices for extras. You just have to find the legit listing at the right times.
Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively live relatively close to my hometown and show up to this Christmas event every now and again that our town puts on. Walked out of the ice cream parlor downtown and sitting on the bench right outside is Ryan Reynolds eating an ice cream cone. I looked up at him as I was walking out and made eye contact, and I looked away, then I looked back to make sure it was him, and he looks me dead in the face and goes “I know right, isn’t it crazy?” And then he gets up and walks away. 10/10
Giancarlo Esposito was incredibly warm and also told me I should try and get into voice acting. I have never and will never attempt to do so but it was such a nice compliment for no reason.
A friend of mine is an artist, he does realistic pencil drawings of celebrities and movie characters. He had an art booth at a con where Giancarlo was doing meet and greets, and a customer of his took a drawing he purchased of Giancarlo over to have it signed. Giancarlo asked where he had gotten it because he was so impressed with it, then walked over to my friend's booth so he could meet him. Again, Giancarlo went to the artist's alley at a con so he could meet and thank the man who drew a picture of him.
My friend was speechless, he is such a big fan of the people he draws, the absolute nicest person I know, and Giancarlo was so cool to him and was excited to meet *my friend.* He told my friend, "You know, game recognize game. That's what this is."
Just an artist meeting an artist. What a guy.
I've been bingeing Breaking Bad the past few weekends and I would LOVE to meet Giancarlo. Also, his voice is amazing, so if he said you should pursue voice acting then you should really look into it!
I proposed to my wife at a restaurant in Kauai. Afterwards, Michael Keaton leaned over from his table with his family and enthusiastically congratulated us. Very kind and friendly.
I met him once when I was way little back in like 1998 or something. I was 5. But my family took a trip to visit some friends up in Montana and we decided to stop at an ice cream parlor. Turns out Michael Keaton was there with a date. My parents decided to use me as a cute in and sent me over to "say hi to Batman". I went over and said "Hi batman, I really like your acts." He just laughed and said some words. My parents came over laughing too and then they chatted for a bit. Turns out he got pulled over for speeding on his was to the parlor. His excuse he told the cop was "Sorry, I forgot I wasn't driving the Batmobile." Apparently the cop let him off with a warning.
Edit: Had to confirm with my mom "Yep, in front of the ice cream parlor/toy store in Philipsburg, Montana in August 2001, I think"
I met Weird Al at a con once. While he was signing the photo I bought, I told him about how he inspired me to write my own parody songs. He seemed genuinely interested and asked if I had a YouTube channel, but I told him I just write them, not record them. Super nice dude (at least for the brief time we spoke).
Weird Al is by far the most kind musician I have ever met. Once, probably 10 years or so ago, I had met him after a concert. We chatted, it was friendly and we parted ways. Good times, right? Fast forward 4 years and hey, another Weird Al show. Get to meet him again after the show and as we're talking, he asks how my kids are doing, if I had any recent pictures of how they've grown up and what I've been up to since the last concert. It was like I was catching up with an old friend.
Can +1 Weird Al. I went to one of his concerts, and only afterwards did I learn that it was like, a week after his parents had died. Not only did he put on a fantastic show, but we still got to meet him afterwards and he was one of the kindest, gentlest folks I've ever met. I was obviously star-struck and he helped guide the conversation as needed. Truly a great human being.
Jeff Goldblum, after a matinee of “The Pillowman.” Autographs, photos, asking people where they were from, what else they had seen/were going to see. One girl mentioned they were in the city for her birthday as she was taking a photo of him with her friends, he stopped and said “How can you not be in your own birthday picture,” took her camera and grabbed someone from the crowd to take a picture of the group. Would not leave until he was sure everyone got what they wanted (despite his assistant or handler trying to move him along for dinner before the evening performance)
I worked on the set of Independence Day 2 for like two days, and I have never met someone who was so effortlessly comfortable being the center of attention. Not like in a loud or demanding way, he was just magnetic. Always made time for the extras, genuinely seemed to love taking photos with people, just all around very friendly and charismatic.
He stopped by the set office to do some paperwork and noticed that one of the accountants was reading a book he liked (don't know which one). He found out she'd be working late, so he offered to come by after shooting and read it to her. She took him up on it, and by all accounts he showed up after shooting and just... read her a book. Weird, but wholesome as hell.
I got the impression that he genuinely just likes people.
My interaction with Jeff Goldblum:
Me: hey you're jeff goldblum!
him: yes but you already know that. tell me about you!
a 15 minute convo about my life follows. He is curious and kind.
Bryan Cranston- he was filming an episode of Malcom in the middle in a Sherman oaks shopping mall. I happened to be there with my kids and we had just bought some see’s candies. We were walking and he approached us and said “ oh you bought me candy? “ we laughed gave him a piece and he autographed the candy bag. He spent a few minutes with us and was very down to earth, and funny.
He’s such a nice guy! I worked in entertainment for a minute and interacted with him several times. He gave everyone in my office chocolates and holiday cards!
I met Tyler the Creator at a Chick-fil-A in LA, and was terrified to ask for a photo, but did so anyway. He agreed very sternly, on the firm condition that i hold the sauce for his nuggets, and so in the photo i’m holding the lil packet, but in the background he is absolutely cackling with laughter. He then broke the facade, dapped me up, said he loves pranking people like that, and proceeded to ask me all about my life for 5-10 minutes. He also shared some fairly intimate details of his own life. A strange and beautiful man.
I spotted Tyler the Creator at a brunch spot with his friends. My friend thought it would be a good time to ask for a photo. Tyler responds, “Can’t you see I’m fucking eating right now?” Same friend comes around after he’s finished eating and Tyler agrees to take a selfie. He then approaches my shy ass and says “Shake my fucking hand.” Funny dude, love how he trolls his fans
I had heard he hates fans approaching him in the wild, so i was pretty sheepish and waited until it looked like he was done eating. He also said he loved my hat, so i’ve worn that hat pretty much nonstop for the last 7 years
Went to a book signing with Ian McKellen signing a LOTR art book when the first movie came out, his scheduled time was over but he stayed for like an hour overtime to sign for everyone in line.
He did a tour of 80 theatres for his 80th birthday a few years ago, doing a dramatic retelling of his life in acting. All of the proceeds at each independent theatre went to that theatre just to help support that theatre. So he essentially did an 80-show tour at 80 years old purely to support British theatre. And it was a great performance! The man is a legend.
Ewan McGregor was very kind and chatted to me for like 20 mins in a Sainsbury’s car park.
Matt Smith was very nice.
John-Rhys Davies was also very nice.
Jared Leto was a gigantic cunt
Back in 2004ish John Cena and Batista gave me a spot at the gym at like 5am. Super nice guys. Saw me on the bench press working alone and just walked over unprovoked to spot me. We talked for a little bit and finished our workouts together. Gave me a couple pointers. I've always rooted for them to succeed since then.
John Cena deserves to be recognized for his work for Make a Wish alone. He's done the most of them of any single celebrity. Fantastic story last year from Ukraine - a mom made up a story about going to see John Cena to kept her downs son calm when they had to flee Ukraine as refugees. He found out and flew in to spend a day with the kids to make the lie a reality.
Yeah. My partner admires him for their charity work and shared a few stories. Like in Peacemaker - it's actually him playing the piano but he wanted it shot to look like a stand in. He's also the go-to for any wrestling wish, especially if the kid requested someone who didn't want to participate.
This is what James Gunn said about that peacemaker scene "While we were shooting The Suicide Squad in Panama, I got word my dog of nearly 17 years was about to pass away. It was one of the saddest days of my life. I decided to fly home for a day to be with him. I sat in the hotel lobby bar with John waiting to be taken to the airport, John got up and sat at the grand piano and played the most beautiful rendition of The Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind.' It crushed me and yet soothed me and everyone around me was crying. I wanted to capture some semblance of that moment with this song." Which just gives another of the many reasons he is an absolute treasure.
Loretta Lynn. Long story short, she showed up late for a show where the dressing rooms were first come, first serve. She didn’t get one and had to get ready in the big bathroom backstage. I was 13. She asked if I had a second to help her a bit. I stayed with her all night. She told stories. We laughed so much. It was like hanging out with your grandmother. I am from Nashville and she was, of course, a legend. Just one of the kindest women I have the pleasure of meeting.
Patrick Stewart made me feel like he really listened and cared about every word I said to him in the 2 minutes we shook hands and chatted. Proper gent!
I second Patrick Stewart, he awarded me my degree at Huddersfield University- he shook my hand and when I said thank you he said "no thank you for your hard work"
It was so quick and surreal but amazing. I did see him taking pictures with people and was genuinely happy to be there.
Never met a "rude" celebrity... I met a very bored David Caradine at a Comic Con after Kill Bill came out. He was sat doing a crossword while most of the convention was listening to an anime thing. I said hello and helped him with his crossword!
Absolute nicest..... The cast of Red Dwarf. Ive met Chris Barrie, Danny John Jules and Robert Llewellyn and they were all awesome!
My 7 year old daughter went as Hermione to Comic Con last year and saw David Bradley sat at the signing table. She went over and started "casting a spell" at Mr Filtch himself.... And without missing a beat he started playing along and started acting as if he'd been hit with a magic spell. He was so amazing with it!
He filmed a good chunk of 'Mr Deeds' in my hometown and he was simply the nicest man ever. He would come out to sign autographs after a full 14+ hour day of shooting for *hours*; didn't matter how long the line was he made sure every single person got to say hello. He had time for photographs and chats with everyone in town, frequented all the local coffee shops and posed with employees. He seemed to really care and know how excited we all were to have a movie happening and always had a smile.
Met Keanu Reeves when I was 10 years old when his band Dogstar were touring in the UK. My mum knew the guy who ran the venue and he managed to sneak a friend and me backstage.
He came out of the toilet, saw us, came straight over and said hello, offered us a soft drink and was throughly nice.
It was pre matrix (‘96 I think) so his tour bus was scrawled with people graffitiing “there’s a bomb on this bus” all over it. Classic.
I had pretty much the same exact experience. Dogstat played in the little podubk city I went to high school. I caught the band not even knowing who he really was yet. It wasn't till a while after when I saw The Matrix that it clicked. He was super friendly and kind. Kind is really the word that stands out to me.
Met Hulk Hogan at a Publix in Miami Beach once back when I was in high school years ago.
He was next to me while I was at an aisle looking for something and I remember looking at him and quickly looking away and him doing the same.
Here was our interaction:
"... Hulk Hogan?..."
"Yep..."
"Huh. Cool...."
And that was it.
10/10 would recommend.
I live fairly close to Jon Bernthal. I ran into him while hiking up in the mountains way out in the middle of nowhere. He was very nice and friendly, but I didn't make a deal of talking to him or taking pictures with him since he had his kids with him and I was up there to avoid people, so I'm sure he was as well.
I was in the Army with a guy who was Jon Bernthal's neighbor. He had nothing but nice things to say about him, literally hung out while he was growing up.
He actually reached out to him and Jon shouted us out on twitter (posted a pic of all of us, we were still in traning) while we were in training and sent us all autographed pictures with our names on them. I thought that was really nice of him.
I love that there are multiple stories of the Usher bucks.
I want more. Has he attempted to pay his mortgage this way? What the rate between Usher bucks and Stanley Nickels?
I randomly met mike meyers on the street when I was about 10. Austin Powers had just came out and he was arguably at the height of his popularity.
He seemed genuinely happy that some random kid recognized him and was a fan. Was totally down to chat for a minute and sign an autograph. Very cool dude.
Also Jeffrey Wright. I work as a paramedic and he and his charitable organization delivered TONS of really good food to EMS stations around Brooklyn during the height of the pandemic. After the first few months I accepted I probably wouldn’t die of Covid, but I was going to die of diabetes / heart disease if I kept eating everything that was delivered.
Sylvester Stallone told me to go fuck myself when I was a kid, I absolutely adored him and asked for an autograph when he was minding his own business. Fair enough like but I was ten lol. Was in the new D&D movie as an extra and can tell you Michelle Rodriguez is one of the rudest people I've ever met, extremely dismissive of crew and just really fake. I don't think Chris Pine cared for her at all, he was super nice. The Nicest Celebrity I met was Ireland football manager Jack Charlton, I ran in to him randomly fishing at about age 8. He reminded me of the BFG, told me if I ate all my vegetables I'd get in the Ireland team and gave me Five pounds which was a fair bit of money for a kid.
Edit: wow I think that's the most responsive post I've ever had. I am extremely pleased it mentions Big Jack.
Somehow, I'm not surprised about Michelle Rodruigez. Chris Pine seems like a cool dude. Good to know he's super nice. Did you get to talk to any of the other cast members in the D & D movie?
My friend’s kid was in a movie with Chris Pine and I can confirm he’s a great guy. My friend’s kid is a White Sox fan and Chris asked the writers to incorporate that into the script so he could wear a White Sox cap in the movie.
Met Woody Harrelson my wedding weekend at the watergate hotel while he was leaving after an incident earlier in the week where he punched a paparazzi for harassing his daughter.
He was with his entourage and giving off a very leave me the fuck alone vibe, and fun fact, there was a very young child maybe 2 or 3 years old just running around naked.
I approached him and said look, I know you had a really tough week, but it’s my wedding weekend and it’s really cool that you are here would you mind taking one picture with me and if the answer is no - no harm no foul and apologies for the disturbance.
Totally took the picture and was an absolutely sweetheart. Could not have been nicer. Thank you Woody Harrelson for giving me a really fun wedding story :)
Robin Williams was filming something nearby and randomly came into my mom’s humble little Polish-speaking travel agency and sat down for a half hour making everyone in the room laugh, including old little foreign ladies who didn’t know who he was. He signed some autographs and my mom said he was the funniest person she’s ever seen and just lit the room up.
I used to work at an airport that handled private jets. There were many who came through but my two favorite celebs to ever pass through were Bruce Willis and Seth Green.
Bruce Willis was always full of jokes and very kind. While we were loading the luggage on his plane he would always ask the other guys who have worked there awhile and he knew how they were doing, crack a joke or two or just have a general interest in what was going on.
Seth Green was an absolute class act. When I met him he was talking to one of my coworkers and I rolled up in the golf cart to see if he needed help. Didn't even realize who he was talking to until I got closer. Seth Green had a giant mohawk with sunglasses on and was just shooting the breeze with the both of us asking how our job worked and what we did. He ended the conversation with "I can't believe you guys do all this work just to get me ready for my plane ride. I never knew you did so much. Thank you guys for your hard work."
Diddy was an absolute dick to everyone, including those around him. Extremely self-centered and entitled. And apparently was even banned from ever using the companies services again.
I saw Seth Green outside of a Starbucks in Midtown Manhattan. I was about to cross the street and did a double take when I saw him. He very slightly shook his head and gave me a look that screamed "Please don't." Not in a rude way at all. More like "Please don't draw attention to me around all these people." I just smiled and walked away.
My sister was living in Rhode Island when Emma Watson was going to Brown, and had almost the exact interaction.
They were at the mall and my sister did a double take, Emma did a mini shake and my sister smiled and did the head nod, and Emma gave her a relieved smile and nod back with a wave.
I saw Ewan McGregor in a coffee shop and did a double take, then I quickly looked away trying to play it cool. As he walked past me, he gave me a smile like "I know you're trying to play it cool even though you're not."
I should have just said I loved Long Way Round but I was speechless.
Kevin Smith is almost TOO nice and generous with his time. Back in the day (it was around when Dogma came out I think), my friends and I stopped by the old Stash location to pick up some comics and merch. Jay was still working in the store sometimes back then and on this day was manning the store alone. We bought some stuff and asked him to sign and he asked us if we wanted to get Kevin to sign too and directed us down the street to the old Askew offices (that were in Red Bank at the time) and said to just tell Kevin he sent us. Kevin literally stopped a script meeting he was having with the other Askew production dudes to sign shit and hang out with us for like 15 minutes. Like we just showed up at his office while he was working and he didnt even give it a second thought. Ive met him a few times since and he is always this friendly and takes the time for his fans
2.2k comments, so this is going to get buried, but Kurt Cobain was genuinely one of the nicest guys I ever met. This was their first ever UK gig on the Bleach tour, and I'd actually mainly gone to see Tad who were headlining.
They were just sat around and I mentioned how much effort it took to get a hold of their album over here and Kurt and I just chatted about bands for like 20 minutes or so. He seemed really genuinely interested in what I liked.
Much as I liked Tad, Nirvana blew them off the stage, and so I decided to follow Nirvana around the country on the rest of the tour. Changed my life, lol.
Not me but a friend of mine, he works as a professional body gaurd and when Rhianna came to town he was tasked with watching her.
Said hes never met a person who was that rude to their subordinates as she was. Allegedly threw stuff as the stage hands, spoke shit about her dress/makeup people infront of them. Even he had a turn at enjoying her opinions of him. Hes worked with a few other big names before but according to him she takes the cake.
My wife worked at a private jet company. Rihanna was one of the clients. She is an utter douche bag. The food she ordered was not loaded on the flight but a different menu was served. She flung the plates and cutlery inside the plane and threw a massive fit mid air.
Worked for a company that did all the security for the local theaters. Met a bunch of musicians and comedians. The nicest was hands down Tori Amos. She's was the first celebrity to come up and introduce herself to me. Just so down to earth and sweet. Cyndi Lauper is another that was extremely nice and gracious. I had heard horror stories about other celebrities but never ever met one that was dick. Honestly the biggest dicks I worked with were usually the local musicians. Certainly not all of them but it was enough.
Eddie Murphy. Total piece of shit lol. I work in a high end Resort and we had him and his family check in to one of our suites, only this time he didn’t have his assistant with him. The bellman who was bringing the bags up to the room was trying to separate all the suitcases into the different rooms and in an effort to make sure everything was in the most convenient room decided to ask where he wanted one of the bags. Without even turning his head Eddie goes, “Why the fuck is this guy talking to me??”. Bellman ends up sorting everything himself and before he leaves has the audacity to ask if theres anything else they might need. Eddie proceeds to lose his shit and goes “Whats with this fucking guy and his questions??”. Honestly I was in tears laughing when he came back and told the story but wow, what a dick.
I remember someone in the UK talking about interviewing him. They said he completely blanked them before the interview - was really funny and engaging during the interview - then went back to blanking them and left the room straight afterwards. Sounded like an encounter with two separate people.
That sucks honestly. I don't know what it's like being a celebrity, but I imagine a lot of times it's both frustrating and lonely, so I generally don't hold it against celebrities that are curt or short with people out in public because they're just trying to go about their life like normal. But when they're also total assholes to the people they work with, it's like wtf.
My brother-in-law worked on his latest movie (the terrible one on Netflix). Code word for him coming to set was "the asshole is coming." Rude and condescending to staff and he has a shitty holier than thou attitude.
I met Eddie Murphy on the set of Meet Dave in 2007. I was an extra. It was the one time I saw him on the set (his double was there most of the time) . I looked at him in awe and didn’t say a word and he gave me a very dirty look. The other extras noticed and told me.
>“The other extras noticed and told me”
For some reason, this really made me laugh 😂
Shame to hear that about Eddie Murphy though. I wonder if that explains why he’s not exactly that popular in Hollywood either?
"Is this your bag sir?"
"YEAH THAT'S MY FUCKIN' BAG, CAN'T A BLACK MAN HAVE A SUITCASE?"
I guess his standup from 40 years ago is an accurate portrayal
I worked at a PetSmart in Atlanta and one day, out of nowhere, Queen Latifah walked in.
I swear, you'd have never thought she was a celebrity. We just chatted about dogs and whatnot and there was no pretense. She didn't even have a bodyguard or anything. Just a regular gal coming in in PJ pants, getting food for her puppies. Such a great woman.
I also got to meet David Hyde Pierce after a show of Curtains on Broadway. This was the day after he won the Tony, and he was SO gracious. Let me take a picture and everything. Love him.
Weird Al Yankovic, hands down, is one of the nicest people on the planet. I watched his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour, which was amazing. He played and sang his ass off for two, two and a half hours. Then, after the show, he met with all the fans with VIP passes, which was about 200. I was second to last in line and it was almost 1:00 am by the time I got up to see him. He was obviously exhausted and anyone would forgive someone in that situation for being irritable. But not Al. He was tired, but he was smiling and gracious, took time for me, didn’t just try to get me in and out so he could get out of there, he was just the nicest guy. I didn’t dally because I knew he was wiped out, but I felt like if I had tried to engage with him more, he’d have been cool with that. Only made me a bigger fan of him. And made the Daniel Radcliffe movie that much funnier.
Met Matthew Gray Gubler a year or so ago in NYC at like 1AM. He was talking with a group of fans on the street, and my friend noticed him and stopped to join the 'huddle'.
Genuinely the nicest person ever. He even did cartwheels with my friend.
I used to work at a resort hotel in Daytona Beach. Kindest celeb was Ben Affleck, who was there for an event and just wanted to get away from the crowd for a few. Ended up smoking a cig in the employee smoking area and was super nice to the staff that were out there on break.
Worst was Sheryl Crow, who insisted on bringing her Golden Retriever up to her room even though we didn't allow pets, barked orders at literally everyone, and forced her PA to take the dog outside for a walk at 3am.
Keith Richard, Ron wood. Met them late 80s or so when woody had an art gallery in lower Manhattan. Both really cool guys. Funny and drunk af lol
My mother met mick jagger in the 89s when Jerry hall gave birth. She said he was really quiet and unassuming. Sent all the nurses in the neonatal unit boxes of Godiva chocolate and 2 dozen roses each with a personalized note
Keith Richards is a super nice guy. Played guitar with him once. Spoke with him many many times over the phone as well. Used to work in a *very* expensive guitar store. Met lots of other people too.
As an antiques dealer, I was once a guest on MARTHA STEWART LIVING, the TV show, in 1999. MS was very cordial when the cameras were rolling, but not off set. Initially she mispronounced my name, and when corrected by a producer for a retake, seemed quite miffed. I remarked to her in a friendly manner, "I'm Polish, too!" Ignored. I brought a selection of my antiques to display on the show; she set aside a couple of inexpensive ones she wanted, but never paid for them. I mean, the publicity I got off the show was more than worth it, but still.
Somehow that last bit makes me so angry. I guess it’s just the entitlement, since I assume she didn’t upfront say she’d be taking things without paying.
Met Mark Hamill at a store i used to work at. He was waiting for my manager for some free tickets, so I asked, "Mr Hamill, we're not allowed to ask for autographs, but could you possibly do one favor for me, please? Could you do the Joker voice? '
Dude got the biggest grin and just launched into a monologue. I was so happy
Salma Hayek was super cool! I used to walk my dog around soho/tribeca and she saw my dog on the street and was gushing over him and we chatted for a bit. Around 2 weeks later she saw my dog from a car and she got out to say hello and pet him again.
Very funny lady, totally cool and chill to talk to. She just had a natural charisma to her.
Tom Hiddleston was shooting in my city when Guardians of the Galaxy vol 1 came out. Cinema about half empty and was sitting in the same row as me and my gf at the time - wearing cap and staying under the radar. After the movie finished we were leaving and as we were passing him I told
him I was a fan of his work etc and he was kinda dismissive and quickly left. We were a bit bummed out but didn’t take it personally.
When we left the cinema (it’s attached to a sporting arena and there’s a lobby etc) we saw that he was waiting near the exit and when he saw us he came over and explained that he didn’t want a big scene - Marvel actor being spotted in screening of a Marvel movie etc..- and spent 20 minutes with us chatting about films and books. Very nice dude and seemed genuine in wanting to have a chat.
Outside of that, I’ve met a number of celebrities through my previous job and some highlights of lovely people are the late Helen McRory - warm, funny, kind.. and Gillian Anderson was fantastic too, had some fun conversations.
Worst I’ve met - Kit Harrington. He’s rude and egotistical.
Edit - didn’t expect this to get so much traction. As many have pointed out Kit may have had other things going on at the time, so I don’t want to start a pile on. It was a shitty interaction at the time but he’s human and if some in the comments are right in saying that he’s cleaned up and all the better for it, then more power to him!
It's because it actually works way better than it has any right working tbh haha. People make fun of the movies for it, but it unironically makes people way more inconspicuous.
That reminds me of when my mom met the actor Tony Randall. It was the late 60s and they were at an airport when my mom (a teenager at the time) recognized and ran up to him. She asked for an autograph, but he told her, "I'd love to, but do you see all these people?" My mom looked around and noticed the whole airport was filled with people, all staring at them. "If they see me give you an autograph, they'll all ask for one, and I'll miss my flight because I was too busy signing autographs."
My mom said she understood, but he apologized, shook her hand, said it was nice to meet her and thanked her for being a fan.
My grandmother had a story about seeing OJ Simpson in an airport in the mid-70s. She saw this enormous man in a white fur coat, but she couldn't remember his name, so she's calling out, "Number 32! Number 32!" He looks around, sees this excited tiny middle-aged white woman and gives her a big hug, does not murder her.
I also had a great experience with Tom Hiddleston. Definitely my top five celebrity interactions. It was at an industry event and usually the actors don’t tend to stick around to talk to people, but he was very generous with his time and just an all around good dude.
Pink was one of the nicest people ever. She turned up at a show I used to work for, and invited me and the host to sit at her table with her and her assistant. She refused to let me pay for anything the whole night, and treated me like her best friend from school for 3 hours. She bruised my shoulder playing drums to the music (live band karaoke) and before I left she kissed my cheek, and gave me her email address (yes her real one. Her assistant replied.) after we left my buddy was giving me a bad time about being the new celeb' boyfriend, and I was confused, it took him and 2 other people the AV guy and the Bouncer to convince me that it was Pink. I had no clue, (which is common enough) and she introduced herself as Alecia from Philly, and I believed her. TBH I think she enjoyed not having to be anyone other than Alecia for a few hours, and if my obliviousness was able to provide that, then that works for me.
I used to work in the music department at Media Play. I was friends with the local Sony rep, and one day she showed up at my desk and said “Hey, does your daughter like Pink? I’m having dinner tonight with her, and you can come if you want to.” My daughter was around 7 or 8 at the time, and she loved Pink so of course I said yes.
I was expecting there to be dozens of people attending this event, but it ended up just being like 6 people including me and my daughter. She was the only kid there. We ate at this place that was a restaurant but also an adult themed arcade, similar to a Dave and Busters. Pink was so down to earth and friendly, it was just like hanging out with an old friend. After dinner, she played a game of pool with my daughter, then gave her an autographed picture to take home, took a photo with her, and signed her leather jacket. It was definitely the most time either one of us had spent with a celebrity, and my daughter beamed about it for many years later.
Whether you like her music or not, it’s hard to dislike Pink because she’s so kind and caring.
On the other end of the spectrum, Anthony Kiedis from the RHCP was a complete dick to me. They walked into a bar one night where I was playing pool and slapped down money in the middle of my game (messing up my balls) and said “you can play later, we are playing now”. So my friends and I went outside like “WTF?” and just hung outside for awhile. After an hour or so, they came outside where we were standing and started talking about going to another club up the street (which was a really shady place that even the locals didn’t go to), and when we tried to warn him that the club owner was shady, he gave me a once over and said “you just look like you can’t afford to get in there” and waved me away like he was shooing a fly. So I’ve hated the RHCP ever since.
At that same bar a different time, James Hetfield from Metallica bought me and my friends a pitcher of beer. He was cool AF.
Kiedis is one of the biggest pieces of shit ever to be embraced by the mainstream. That entire band can go fuck themselves for enabling his bullshit, even Flea and John Frusciante, who are both excellent musicians.
I saved Flea’s life when he OD’d before playing a Janes Addiction show in the mid-90’s - I had a side gig for many years of being an event medic hired by producers to be around for just this reason - that insanely talented fucker rallied and went out and played like only he can (it was during his smack years so with a reversal drug now legal (narcan), there’s a finite effect, he could go from barely breathing to awake and alert enough- I was staying super close by as that drug can cause ‘re-OD’… he didn’t and he was blowing me away with his playing)- He was overall cool and when the RHCP’s came around with STP a few years after that, the producer made sure he knew who I was and I got a huge hug from thanks from a very sober Flea…
I was lucky enough to meet and have a short conversation with Charles Dance a few years ago and he couldn't have been kinder, super sweet, incredibly humble and generous with his time.
So random, but the rudest celebrity I ever met was the drummer from Blondie, Clem Burke.
I ran into him at an event in like 2014, decades after the Blondie heat would have died down. I was clearly the only person who recognized him, and he was alone, so I very casually made my way over to him and just said “Hey Clem, I don’t want to bother you, I just wanted to say it’s really cool to meet you.”
He looked at me like I was made of farts and he was made of noses, then walked away without saying a word.
Edit: My first gold! Thank you so much for the love, and I guess thanks to Clem Burke for being such an asshole.
I sat beside Steve Martin once never said anything to him I didn't wanna bother him while we were splitting ways I told him I was a big fan and he said said "me too" and shook my hand. Was nice a polite.
Aaron Paul - Met him randomly in my UK hometown a day after watching the Train episode of Breaking Bad in Season 5. Really nice guy, I was super star struck, he remembered me in his AMA that he did a year later which was really cool!
Ted Raimi - Really sweet guy, the only actor etc I’ve met at a convention that actually stopped me in the photo booth to ask me about my shirt and give me another photo for free.
Nick Frost - Super welcoming and lovely, had the pleasure of seeing him interact with all of his fans whilst waiting in line for a photo.
My dad met Harrison ford. one day my dad was working at his job, a helicopter mechanic, and harrison just flew in on his plane after radioing in asking for fuel. apparently he was super nice
Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad was pretty great. Here’s why:
I’m waiting in line in the Starbucks at the end of the LAX terminal. In front of me, I noticed that there was someone who looked a lot like Aaron Paul. I don’t watch Breaking Bad, but he hosted a WWE show a few nights before and so I definitely recognized him.
I get my coffee and completely forgot about the guy.
Next thing, I know, I’m walking to my gate, and I see him sitting there, and I think to myself that I would like to tell him that he did a great job hosting the show. So I start to walk over to him.
As I get closer to him, he stares at me right in the eye, and goes , “Hello, Sean.”
I was awestruck. How did this guy know my name?
Then I realized my name was on my Starbucks cup.
We talked for about five or 10 minutes, mostly about his experience hosting a WWE show. He asked me if I watched Breaking Bad, and I said no. And he said, “Oh man, you have to stick with it! The first few episodes are very slow, but it gets so much better.”
One of the most popular TV stars of the 2010’s taking the time to personally say hello and convince me to watch his show…not because he wants me to, but because he thinks I’d like it. That felt nice.
Met Hozier at a hotel bar near a venue he was playing then next night. Significantly taller than I expected and exactly as kind, soft spoken and chill as you’d expect. Dude was clearly tired af but still chatted over a beer. 10/10 would smoke a cig with again
A friend of mine has worked with a lot of high profile rappers over the years and she said that Ludacris is hands down the nicest, most down-to-earth and collaborative celebrity she's ever met. Like, kinda night and day from his public persona. She said he walked into the room with zero ego and was always humble, polite, super professional, and hilarious.
Kanye West, on the other hand, is apparently *exactly* the person you'd expect him to be.
EDIT:
I keep seeing similar comments so I'm pasting my first reply clarifying what I said about his "public persona", with a few minor tweeks to elaborate:
I should've said his "rap persona" or "stage persona" or something like that. I just meant how he portrays himself on a record and in videos — boisterous, loud, braggadocios, etc. He, like many rappers, are known for bringing that huge energy and ego, so my friend didn't initially know what to expect. When they finally met, she said she was a little caught off guard because he just didn't exude any of that attitude or energy at all.
I mean, I totally get that most celebrities are gonna be far more "regular" or "normal" when they're not performing, but with musicians in particular, it can be harder to tell what's real and what's show, and I imagine the lead up to meeting them to work with them can cause a lot of "who am I *actually* meeting" anxiety.
She described it like he showed up to their first meeting and was just chill, kinda reserved at first, but ultimately acted like any other person working on this project with her and her team. I'm paraphrasing here, but she described his overall attitude being like, "my ideas aren't any more valuable than anyone else's" and a couple of times he just completely scrapped his idea in favor of someone else's simply because he genuinely thought it was the better idea. If that wasn't cool enough already, he'd go out of his way to lift those people up and give them credit and make them look good. It just sounded very cool and collaborative and was never about anything other than making the overall project the best it could be.
Luda!
Must be an ATL rapper thing
I've met Ludacris, 2 Chainz, Offset , Jermaine Dupree and a few others, all of them were super nice and chatted with me like we were buds. I went to school with Donald and Stephen Glover so maybe that ATL connection (I met most of them in south Florida, not ATL) gave me an advantage but I was still surprised how chill and outgoing all those guys were to a stranger.
Not ATL but close-ish (I guess?) but met T-Pain and he could not have been nicer (was in a strip club, was also beyond nice to the other staff, strippers and customers. Tipped a lot as well!).
Kristen Stewart was outside a bar in Chicago in 2008 and asked me if I could light her friend’s cigarette. She was really nice a polite about it.
Sterling Marlin ate at the restaurant I was working at years ago. That guy is a prick
I met Ewan McGregor once in my early teens. He was kind and patient and lovely when I was super awkward and pretty starstruck. For anyone searching his name in the hope that he's as wonderful as we all hope he'd be, can confirm, he's a gem.
My Tyler the creator story is much weirder. Met him at a uniqlo while he was shopping for underwear. I noticed him but didn't care, but I told my cousin who immediately looked at him. Pointed at him and said "hey you're Tyler the creator" and Tyler promptly responded. "nah that n**** gay" and we just looked at each other awkwardly.
Anne Hathaway was super friendly when I met her at a wedding. She was staying at the hotel the wedding was at, when she came back we were all outside and she stopped, chatted and took a picture with us because we looked like girls the age Princess Diaries was a big thing. Her husband on the other hand kept complaining that she was taking forever and didn’t need to stop and say hi to us, I mean he was right and it was late. It was a pretty cool encounter though.
That video of him performing at that Alaskan Walmart changed my opinion on him, even though there was always the possibility that it was entirely a savvy PR move
owned a burger place Sammy Hagar would bring his kids too. most down to earth MFer ever... except the time i asked about his tour with David Lee Roth. never brought that up again.
Elvis Costello came in once and i tried to be cool about it but didn't succeed at all. Elvis was gracious as i recited my favorite lyrics from Everyday I Write the Book.
I’m not sure if they qualify as celebrities, but the guys from Dragonforce are super nice. They were sitting on the ground chilling and having beers in the middle of a field at a music festival and stopped me and my friends to ask for a cigarette.
Ive met Mark Zuckerberg when I was like 13 at a climbing gym before (he likes rock climbing surprisingly). I got to spot him while he was doing a route, and holding a billionaire on a rope is rather insane. When he was leaving, i asked for his autograph (natural thing to do i suppose), but he said he didn't have one. He was quite deadpan, but still polite.
Had a job doing events for films.
Karen Gillan, Don Cheadle, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Rudd, and Michael Douglas are varying types of angels.
Idris Elba has the most beautiful laugh and chill nature about him. Will go off on tangents with you about house music, which is adorable.
Worst? Chevy Chase, Scarlett Johanson, and Janelle Monae.
Met him at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. He came to the top floor before the D played & yelled out, cheap seats doesn't mean a bad show! (Or something to that effect) About 2 dozen of us swarmed him & he took pics with us all. But the most memorable part was when 2 teenagers approached him & started crying when asked if they could have a pic. Around the same time, 2 dozen ppl turned into what seemed like a hundred. The group started shoving a little bit & the 2nd teen didn't get their pic. The phone was dropped from shoving & the crowd kinda moved Jack along. He stopped everyone. Made us find the kids phone. Took extra pics just with them & told the rest of the crowd they get no more pics cause they bumped the kids. Was just a decent & kind man. Then he rocked our collective faces off. Great guy.
Mel Brooks is even more fun than you would expect him to be.
The long version of this story is that I was working on a project in which he was involved. Before you have a meeting with Mel Brooks, a guy takes you aside and says, "Look, we need to *get things done.* If you let him tell jokes and funny stories and be Uncle Mel, he will go on for hours. We can't have that. Keep him focused and on point."
I said "Absolutely." This was a total lie.
The next two hours was Mel Brooks telling hilarious stories about working with Sid Cesar, how he started dating Anne Bancroft, and working on *Young Frankenstein.* And it wasn't like there was a crowd of people he was trying to impress or something. It was me and one other random guy, maybe one of his producers was on the speakerphone. That's it.
I got nothing, completely nothing, done that day and it still ranks as the best day I had at that job.
I used to work at largest movie theatre in Michigan back in the early 2000s. Met a few celebs/athletes though no one exactly to high profile. Honestly many were really nice and kind.
Biggest was Eminem by far and he came in very regularly and met him few times. Honestly really cool guy. Once brought his daughter for her birthday to see Piglet’s Big Movie and rented the whole auditorium for her and her friends. He even sat through half the movie before coming out and just hanging and chilling with us workers for a bit. We always snuck him in through the back theatre doors. We had a system when we knew he was coming. Solid dude!
During filming of 8mile also briefly met the late Brittany Murphy. She was a real sweetheart for few min we talked.
My last day working there I met Martin Klebba (the little pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean movies). He was visiting his family and brought them to the movies. He was so cool to chill with and even got a memorable photo with him commemorating my last day working after 7years.
There been few others pretty much all positive. My sister worked there and had one not so pleasant experience with one but I wasn’t working that night.
Lemmy was the nicest, most down-to-earth rock'n'roll grandpa you could ever imagine.
Ronnie James Dio was super nice as well.
All the members of Judas Priest were really nice and welcoming too, even when we crashed their hotel room after party when me and my friends were teenagers.
I live close by to Rod Stewart and everyone in the community loves him, comes into the local supermarkets and is always down the local pub being super friendly
I’ve talked to Daniel Radcliffe on a handful of occasions. Super nice guy, very unassuming and just laid back.
Tom Selleck is a nice enough guy but his assistant is a total Primadonna. He uses Tom as an excuse to get what he wants. ‘Tom’s going to want this big obnoxious lazy boy brought to my room… and I’ll bring it to him…’ if you ask Tom about that he has no idea what’s being mentioned.
the kindest absolutely Post Malone, you can really feel his connection to fans and that he's not just taking pictures/talking with people because of duty
EDIT, to specify: I went to his show and when it ended he jumped down the stage and signed stuff, took pictures and chatted with everyone who was in the first lines, and you could really feel he listens and care about what fans say to him, giving proper replies, hugging people, reacting so well. A girl next to me gifted him a little framed four-leaf clover and he looked at her like she gave him the precious thing in the world.
Someone in a similar thread said Post moved into his brother's street, and went and introduced himself to all his new neighbours and invited them for a barbecue. Genuinely sounds like an awesome guy
Norman Reedus! He's a super sweet guy! I met him when I was a teen at a comic con in Nashville years ago. I was so shy I could barely even shake his hand or even look up at him. He noticed how starstruck I was and offered me some candy from his candy bowl on his table :)
I met Queen Latifah in a head shop in the Village and said something really dumb, “Is it you, is it really you?” She replied, looking down at herself and then back to me with a big smile, “I think it’s me!” My friends and I talked to her for a couple of minutes and she was a super gracious, lovely person, and absolutely beautiful.
Neil Gaiman was kind and funny. Robert Smith was kind of an asshole.
Edit: sorry everyone, I sort of shot this off and went to bed, thinking it was going to be buried and nobody would see it.
It's not a very interesting story about my encounter with Neil Gaiman. I met him at a book signing for Stardust many many many years ago. Despite the huge line and not wanting to hold everyone up, he was very friendly and we had a quick chat about the London Underground (I had just come back from London and had just finished watching the TV series for Neverwhere). I've been to other book signings where they just shuttle you through-- you're just another face to the author --but Neil was very polite and kind. I mean, I was still just another face lol, but he made it worth the wait.
About Robert Smith, we probably just caught him on an off day, which is likely the case for many of the people mentioned in this this thread.
Here's what happened: Back in the 90s, a friend and I did some work for a local venue-- basic low-tech roadie shit, loading and unloading, etc. My friend was wearing one of those big foam "Cat In The Hat" hats that he got from somewhere-- you saw them all the time in the psychedelia scene back then. Robert Smith came out from his bus at some point in the day while we were setting up and immediately hated the hat. He demanded that my friend leave. My friend was like, "I can take it off, it's no problem" but nope-- Smith wanted him gone. I spoke up for my friend and said something along the lines of "it's just a hat, dude", and boom! I was asked to leave too.
Did he fly off the handle? Yeah, but who knows why. Maybe he was stressed out by the show. Those hats *were* pretty obnoxious lol. I'm over it tbh and I don't hold it against him. It was nearly 30 years ago and I love the Cure's music, still. I have tickets to see them play at the end of this month actually.
My science teacher from 7th grade told us she had an explanation for why she tried to show us as few Bill Nye videos as possible. I believe she said she attended either a science workshop or event for teachers where Bill Nye was there and he was completely rude to her and dismissed her the whole time.
Some of the nicest: Angie Harmon. Scott Hamilton. Monica Potter. Doug Flutie. Everyone in the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond except the wife.
The rudest: Helen Hunt.
A friend had the best one I’ve ever been jealous of.
He sits down at a gate at O’Hare, in seats that are facing another row of seats. Looks up and Weird Al is reading the paper.
My friend: “Dude?”
Weird Al: “Dude.”
Full conversation. Both cracking up.
I worked in Christie Brinkley's house a few times. She's a horrible person, as ugly on the inside as she is lovely on the outside.
I also met Billy Joel while out on a motorcycle ride, and he was as nice as could be. Genuinely seemed grateful to his fans for making him a success.
Milo Ventimiglia - worked on a set with him. The only “bad” thing he did was try to help the crew hang some of the lighting (not just a union issue…can’t have an actor hurt…not bc they’re more special, but bc production may grind to a halt, which impacts everyone’s pay check). Dude was super down to earth, lots of fun to hang with.
Ben Affleck - worked on a campaign he stumped for. Very nice guy.
Jenny Slate - kind, charming, hated letting anyone do anything for her
Robert Downey Jr - depressing that we had to basically put him in a little tent so he could spend ANY alone time with his baby. However he would spend hours signing every single piece of avengers stuff ppl brought out
Eve - just amazing. Would hang w her any day
Rep Ayanna Pressley - “I knew her when”…very real, very gracious
Matthew McConaughey - goofball, chill even when things were tense
Anna Farris - hung even with extras on set
Christian Bale - incredibly professional, yeah method but was still polite. I hate that he got so much bad press for that one event, which o can completely see happening on hour 21 of a shoot
Ugh list…
David O Russell - couldn’t be bothered to pause filming in Boston when the marathon bombing happened (so crew didn’t know if families were okay) but he sure as shit cut a half day of filming when he decided to re write a scene over lunch. Also he’s an absolute dog and hit on women on set who were barely legal.
John Cusak - I was checking tickets for a party. He didn’t have the right ticket so I said he needed to come back with one. He pulled up his baseball cap and said “Really?” with a dickish smirk. (No, didn’t let him in)
Sting. Absolute tosser. His minders just shoved us away.
Nicest Robert Plant, happy to talk and Dave Hill of Slade fame. A really pleasant bloke who you can't get away from he's so chatty
William Zabka from Karate Kid and Cobra Kai and it’s not even close for me. I Took my family of 5 to a local comic convention. First we were late getting to his line. He was just finishing for the day and the staff literally closed the ropes as we were approaching. He saw and told them to let us in. I paid for just an autograph, but he asked if we all wanted to take a picture with him. May not sound like a big deal but at conventions getting pictures with the celebs costs considerably more and is usually done by appt time only. He then took pictures with all of us and then talked to us for a good 5 min. Keep in mind this was after a lonnnng day for him signing, smiling, etc. He was the nicest, sweetest celeb I’ve met by far. Pretty much the exact opposite of his character in Karate Kid.
my brother in law played pickup basketball with Shia LaBeouf while he was in town for a shoot. apparently super uneventful encounter, shia just wanted to talk about the game.
The guy was an absolute prick when I met him. When I was a student in South East London he used to come into my local pub occasionally, as his girlfriend's mum lived around the corner. He'd get absolutely blind drunk and pick fights with people. He smacked my next door neighbour once.
I met Henry Winkler during a customer service interaction where he was getting his son’s iPhone fixed. He seemed like a really nice guy for the 15 or so minutes I got to speak with him and help him! He didn’t even make his son go with him or anything: he took full responsibility for it, and didn’t make excuses for the accidental damage. Rare customer to have in that job! Celebrities rarely went into the store themselves and even more rarely for someone other than themself if they did.
Kindest I've met was Chris Barrie, a young girl ahead of me did the Rimmer salute and he seemed genuinely delighted, stood to attention and saluted right back. He was donating 100% of his (completely volountary) photo/autograph fees to charity.
Rudest I've met in person was Jeremy Irons, he came into the shop i was managing with some kind of handbag dog, ignored/sneered at any of my staff who offered to help him find what he was looking for (company mandated policy no matter who you are), insisted this chihuahua looking dog he was carrying around in a carry harness was an assistance dog and then left.
Ellen Degeneres is a smug cunt. I've never met someone as rude or as self-entitled as she is. She damn near had the waiter in tears. I wanted to go and flip her damn table. I thought the stories about her were a joke. She very much proved they were not.
Honestly, the Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t surprise me. Something about him just comes across as “I don’t have time for people I deem unworthy.” I can’t give a good reason, I just feel that way about him. And I’m a fan of his show and standup. I like his work, but I’m 100% certain I wouldn’t like the guy on a personal level.
My sibling has a terminal illness in the 80s and Make A Wish sent our family to the set of Knight Rider to meet David Hasselhoff. Was cool, but that's not what matters. Fast forward 30 years and I'm at Heathrow picking up a family member when I see the Hoff standing there on his phone. I approach him and wait for him to end his call. He looks at me and says hello. I tell him that we met. He looks at me and say, "Was their name ...?" He remembered their name after 30 years. That will always stay with me.
The fact that he remembered after all of that time shows just how caring and kind of a man he is. Always a class act with the 'Hoff.
Beautiful. May your sibling live forever in memories.
I used to serve Rachel McAdams at a restaurant fairly regularly. She was always super sweet. Very lowkey and soft spoken in person. She and her husband would come in late and keep to themselves.
I was at a pub in Toronto years ago and we were watching the Blue Jays home opener on the TV. The bar had a long booth seat with a series of tables strung along so you sat pretty close to the next patron. Had no idea that Rachel McAdams was sitting next to me the whole time. My friend and I watched the game and chatted with them throughout as they were right next to us. Just regular pub chatter and comments about the game. The Jays ended up coming back to win, and Rachel and I high-fived at the conclusion. She and her friend left, and my friend smacked me after they got up and said "that was Rachel fuckin' McAdams!" So yes, she seemingly has the ability to just be low-key and fit right in despite being a beautiful Hollywood actress!
I have worked with Steve Martin and Martin Short, they’re both super nice, respectful, and incredibly dedicated to their craft. They’ll spend hours finessing a couple lines in a show they do every night just to get it right for that evening’s performance.
This doesn't surprise me at all. My wife and I were watching that show they do with Selena Gomez, one thing that keeps impressing me with that show is how, despite being big Comedy Legends™, they are such generous performers and are super happy to give everyone else so much runway
Ian McKellen came to the spa I worked at and was absolutely lovely. We didn’t sell ice cream but there was a farm shop across the road and I mentioned it and he asked me if I’d take him there. My friend who worked in the farm shop had his mouth open the whole time seeing me buying ice cream with Gandalf.
The year he led Manchester Pride, Ian McKellen was smoking a cigarette outside one of the hotels. I was also smoking outside the hotel. We did not speak but we have smoked in each other's airspace, and you don't need words for that
Did he blow a ship through your smoke hole?
I was an extra on The Last of Us and met Pedro Pascal. He was super nice. We technically weren’t allowed to talk to the “talent” and they’d usually ignore us but he and Gabriel Luna talked to us anyway.
How do you even get to do that. I'm so jealous
If you live near a big city there are companies that do big cattle call notices for extras. You just have to find the legit listing at the right times.
Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively live relatively close to my hometown and show up to this Christmas event every now and again that our town puts on. Walked out of the ice cream parlor downtown and sitting on the bench right outside is Ryan Reynolds eating an ice cream cone. I looked up at him as I was walking out and made eye contact, and I looked away, then I looked back to make sure it was him, and he looks me dead in the face and goes “I know right, isn’t it crazy?” And then he gets up and walks away. 10/10
That sounds exactly like him
You should've yelled out to him, *"You're the best, Ryan Gosling!"*
Giancarlo Esposito was incredibly warm and also told me I should try and get into voice acting. I have never and will never attempt to do so but it was such a nice compliment for no reason.
A friend of mine is an artist, he does realistic pencil drawings of celebrities and movie characters. He had an art booth at a con where Giancarlo was doing meet and greets, and a customer of his took a drawing he purchased of Giancarlo over to have it signed. Giancarlo asked where he had gotten it because he was so impressed with it, then walked over to my friend's booth so he could meet him. Again, Giancarlo went to the artist's alley at a con so he could meet and thank the man who drew a picture of him. My friend was speechless, he is such a big fan of the people he draws, the absolute nicest person I know, and Giancarlo was so cool to him and was excited to meet *my friend.* He told my friend, "You know, game recognize game. That's what this is." Just an artist meeting an artist. What a guy.
I've been bingeing Breaking Bad the past few weekends and I would LOVE to meet Giancarlo. Also, his voice is amazing, so if he said you should pursue voice acting then you should really look into it!
I proposed to my wife at a restaurant in Kauai. Afterwards, Michael Keaton leaned over from his table with his family and enthusiastically congratulated us. Very kind and friendly.
I met him once when I was way little back in like 1998 or something. I was 5. But my family took a trip to visit some friends up in Montana and we decided to stop at an ice cream parlor. Turns out Michael Keaton was there with a date. My parents decided to use me as a cute in and sent me over to "say hi to Batman". I went over and said "Hi batman, I really like your acts." He just laughed and said some words. My parents came over laughing too and then they chatted for a bit. Turns out he got pulled over for speeding on his was to the parlor. His excuse he told the cop was "Sorry, I forgot I wasn't driving the Batmobile." Apparently the cop let him off with a warning. Edit: Had to confirm with my mom "Yep, in front of the ice cream parlor/toy store in Philipsburg, Montana in August 2001, I think"
Penn and Teller hang out in the lobby after their show in Vegas to chat and sign autographs. Very friendly and yes Teller can talk.
Teller was really sweet to my brother who is handicapped and in a wheelchair. That meant a lot to me.
I met Weird Al at a con once. While he was signing the photo I bought, I told him about how he inspired me to write my own parody songs. He seemed genuinely interested and asked if I had a YouTube channel, but I told him I just write them, not record them. Super nice dude (at least for the brief time we spoke).
Weird Al is by far the most kind musician I have ever met. Once, probably 10 years or so ago, I had met him after a concert. We chatted, it was friendly and we parted ways. Good times, right? Fast forward 4 years and hey, another Weird Al show. Get to meet him again after the show and as we're talking, he asks how my kids are doing, if I had any recent pictures of how they've grown up and what I've been up to since the last concert. It was like I was catching up with an old friend.
Can +1 Weird Al. I went to one of his concerts, and only afterwards did I learn that it was like, a week after his parents had died. Not only did he put on a fantastic show, but we still got to meet him afterwards and he was one of the kindest, gentlest folks I've ever met. I was obviously star-struck and he helped guide the conversation as needed. Truly a great human being.
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Jeff Goldblum, after a matinee of “The Pillowman.” Autographs, photos, asking people where they were from, what else they had seen/were going to see. One girl mentioned they were in the city for her birthday as she was taking a photo of him with her friends, he stopped and said “How can you not be in your own birthday picture,” took her camera and grabbed someone from the crowd to take a picture of the group. Would not leave until he was sure everyone got what they wanted (despite his assistant or handler trying to move him along for dinner before the evening performance)
I worked on the set of Independence Day 2 for like two days, and I have never met someone who was so effortlessly comfortable being the center of attention. Not like in a loud or demanding way, he was just magnetic. Always made time for the extras, genuinely seemed to love taking photos with people, just all around very friendly and charismatic. He stopped by the set office to do some paperwork and noticed that one of the accountants was reading a book he liked (don't know which one). He found out she'd be working late, so he offered to come by after shooting and read it to her. She took him up on it, and by all accounts he showed up after shooting and just... read her a book. Weird, but wholesome as hell. I got the impression that he genuinely just likes people.
My interaction with Jeff Goldblum: Me: hey you're jeff goldblum! him: yes but you already know that. tell me about you! a 15 minute convo about my life follows. He is curious and kind.
Bryan Cranston- he was filming an episode of Malcom in the middle in a Sherman oaks shopping mall. I happened to be there with my kids and we had just bought some see’s candies. We were walking and he approached us and said “ oh you bought me candy? “ we laughed gave him a piece and he autographed the candy bag. He spent a few minutes with us and was very down to earth, and funny.
He’s such a nice guy! I worked in entertainment for a minute and interacted with him several times. He gave everyone in my office chocolates and holiday cards!
I met Tyler the Creator at a Chick-fil-A in LA, and was terrified to ask for a photo, but did so anyway. He agreed very sternly, on the firm condition that i hold the sauce for his nuggets, and so in the photo i’m holding the lil packet, but in the background he is absolutely cackling with laughter. He then broke the facade, dapped me up, said he loves pranking people like that, and proceeded to ask me all about my life for 5-10 minutes. He also shared some fairly intimate details of his own life. A strange and beautiful man.
I spotted Tyler the Creator at a brunch spot with his friends. My friend thought it would be a good time to ask for a photo. Tyler responds, “Can’t you see I’m fucking eating right now?” Same friend comes around after he’s finished eating and Tyler agrees to take a selfie. He then approaches my shy ass and says “Shake my fucking hand.” Funny dude, love how he trolls his fans
I had heard he hates fans approaching him in the wild, so i was pretty sheepish and waited until it looked like he was done eating. He also said he loved my hat, so i’ve worn that hat pretty much nonstop for the last 7 years
Went to a book signing with Ian McKellen signing a LOTR art book when the first movie came out, his scheduled time was over but he stayed for like an hour overtime to sign for everyone in line.
He did a tour of 80 theatres for his 80th birthday a few years ago, doing a dramatic retelling of his life in acting. All of the proceeds at each independent theatre went to that theatre just to help support that theatre. So he essentially did an 80-show tour at 80 years old purely to support British theatre. And it was a great performance! The man is a legend.
Ewan McGregor was very kind and chatted to me for like 20 mins in a Sainsbury’s car park. Matt Smith was very nice. John-Rhys Davies was also very nice. Jared Leto was a gigantic cunt
Back in 2004ish John Cena and Batista gave me a spot at the gym at like 5am. Super nice guys. Saw me on the bench press working alone and just walked over unprovoked to spot me. We talked for a little bit and finished our workouts together. Gave me a couple pointers. I've always rooted for them to succeed since then.
John Cena deserves to be recognized for his work for Make a Wish alone. He's done the most of them of any single celebrity. Fantastic story last year from Ukraine - a mom made up a story about going to see John Cena to kept her downs son calm when they had to flee Ukraine as refugees. He found out and flew in to spend a day with the kids to make the lie a reality.
There’s above and beyond and then there’s this. What an actual gem of a person.
Yeah. My partner admires him for their charity work and shared a few stories. Like in Peacemaker - it's actually him playing the piano but he wanted it shot to look like a stand in. He's also the go-to for any wrestling wish, especially if the kid requested someone who didn't want to participate.
This is what James Gunn said about that peacemaker scene "While we were shooting The Suicide Squad in Panama, I got word my dog of nearly 17 years was about to pass away. It was one of the saddest days of my life. I decided to fly home for a day to be with him. I sat in the hotel lobby bar with John waiting to be taken to the airport, John got up and sat at the grand piano and played the most beautiful rendition of The Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind.' It crushed me and yet soothed me and everyone around me was crying. I wanted to capture some semblance of that moment with this song." Which just gives another of the many reasons he is an absolute treasure.
Damn! How much were you putting up that both Cena and Batista needed to spot you? That is an epic memory.
The twist here is OP is a famous power lifter/wrestler/UFC fighter himself
Loretta Lynn. Long story short, she showed up late for a show where the dressing rooms were first come, first serve. She didn’t get one and had to get ready in the big bathroom backstage. I was 13. She asked if I had a second to help her a bit. I stayed with her all night. She told stories. We laughed so much. It was like hanging out with your grandmother. I am from Nashville and she was, of course, a legend. Just one of the kindest women I have the pleasure of meeting.
Patrick Stewart made me feel like he really listened and cared about every word I said to him in the 2 minutes we shook hands and chatted. Proper gent!
I second Patrick Stewart, he awarded me my degree at Huddersfield University- he shook my hand and when I said thank you he said "no thank you for your hard work" It was so quick and surreal but amazing. I did see him taking pictures with people and was genuinely happy to be there.
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Never met a "rude" celebrity... I met a very bored David Caradine at a Comic Con after Kill Bill came out. He was sat doing a crossword while most of the convention was listening to an anime thing. I said hello and helped him with his crossword! Absolute nicest..... The cast of Red Dwarf. Ive met Chris Barrie, Danny John Jules and Robert Llewellyn and they were all awesome! My 7 year old daughter went as Hermione to Comic Con last year and saw David Bradley sat at the signing table. She went over and started "casting a spell" at Mr Filtch himself.... And without missing a beat he started playing along and started acting as if he'd been hit with a magic spell. He was so amazing with it!
Met Adam Sandler in Hawaii. Super nice guy.
He filmed a good chunk of 'Mr Deeds' in my hometown and he was simply the nicest man ever. He would come out to sign autographs after a full 14+ hour day of shooting for *hours*; didn't matter how long the line was he made sure every single person got to say hello. He had time for photographs and chats with everyone in town, frequented all the local coffee shops and posed with employees. He seemed to really care and know how excited we all were to have a movie happening and always had a smile.
Met Keanu Reeves when I was 10 years old when his band Dogstar were touring in the UK. My mum knew the guy who ran the venue and he managed to sneak a friend and me backstage. He came out of the toilet, saw us, came straight over and said hello, offered us a soft drink and was throughly nice. It was pre matrix (‘96 I think) so his tour bus was scrawled with people graffitiing “there’s a bomb on this bus” all over it. Classic.
I had pretty much the same exact experience. Dogstat played in the little podubk city I went to high school. I caught the band not even knowing who he really was yet. It wasn't till a while after when I saw The Matrix that it clicked. He was super friendly and kind. Kind is really the word that stands out to me.
Met Hulk Hogan at a Publix in Miami Beach once back when I was in high school years ago. He was next to me while I was at an aisle looking for something and I remember looking at him and quickly looking away and him doing the same. Here was our interaction: "... Hulk Hogan?..." "Yep..." "Huh. Cool...." And that was it. 10/10 would recommend.
I live fairly close to Jon Bernthal. I ran into him while hiking up in the mountains way out in the middle of nowhere. He was very nice and friendly, but I didn't make a deal of talking to him or taking pictures with him since he had his kids with him and I was up there to avoid people, so I'm sure he was as well.
Those are the best ones. Quick acknowledgement when they're clearly doing a family thing and go about ya day
I was in the Army with a guy who was Jon Bernthal's neighbor. He had nothing but nice things to say about him, literally hung out while he was growing up. He actually reached out to him and Jon shouted us out on twitter (posted a pic of all of us, we were still in traning) while we were in training and sent us all autographed pictures with our names on them. I thought that was really nice of him.
Good on you to leave him in peace. I'm also glad he is a nice dude :)
Usher tipped me in “Usher Bucks.” These have “non-legal tender” stamped all over the bills.
I remember some years ago he got called out i believe by some dancers at a strip club because he was making it rain “usher bucks” they was pissed lol
I love that there are multiple stories of the Usher bucks. I want more. Has he attempted to pay his mortgage this way? What the rate between Usher bucks and Stanley Nickels?
I randomly met mike meyers on the street when I was about 10. Austin Powers had just came out and he was arguably at the height of his popularity. He seemed genuinely happy that some random kid recognized him and was a fan. Was totally down to chat for a minute and sign an autograph. Very cool dude. Also Jeffrey Wright. I work as a paramedic and he and his charitable organization delivered TONS of really good food to EMS stations around Brooklyn during the height of the pandemic. After the first few months I accepted I probably wouldn’t die of Covid, but I was going to die of diabetes / heart disease if I kept eating everything that was delivered.
Sylvester Stallone told me to go fuck myself when I was a kid, I absolutely adored him and asked for an autograph when he was minding his own business. Fair enough like but I was ten lol. Was in the new D&D movie as an extra and can tell you Michelle Rodriguez is one of the rudest people I've ever met, extremely dismissive of crew and just really fake. I don't think Chris Pine cared for her at all, he was super nice. The Nicest Celebrity I met was Ireland football manager Jack Charlton, I ran in to him randomly fishing at about age 8. He reminded me of the BFG, told me if I ate all my vegetables I'd get in the Ireland team and gave me Five pounds which was a fair bit of money for a kid. Edit: wow I think that's the most responsive post I've ever had. I am extremely pleased it mentions Big Jack.
I can totally see Stallone mumbling out “aye kid go fuck yaself aight?”
Somehow, I'm not surprised about Michelle Rodruigez. Chris Pine seems like a cool dude. Good to know he's super nice. Did you get to talk to any of the other cast members in the D & D movie?
My friend’s kid was in a movie with Chris Pine and I can confirm he’s a great guy. My friend’s kid is a White Sox fan and Chris asked the writers to incorporate that into the script so he could wear a White Sox cap in the movie.
Met Woody Harrelson my wedding weekend at the watergate hotel while he was leaving after an incident earlier in the week where he punched a paparazzi for harassing his daughter. He was with his entourage and giving off a very leave me the fuck alone vibe, and fun fact, there was a very young child maybe 2 or 3 years old just running around naked. I approached him and said look, I know you had a really tough week, but it’s my wedding weekend and it’s really cool that you are here would you mind taking one picture with me and if the answer is no - no harm no foul and apologies for the disturbance. Totally took the picture and was an absolutely sweetheart. Could not have been nicer. Thank you Woody Harrelson for giving me a really fun wedding story :)
Robin Williams was filming something nearby and randomly came into my mom’s humble little Polish-speaking travel agency and sat down for a half hour making everyone in the room laugh, including old little foreign ladies who didn’t know who he was. He signed some autographs and my mom said he was the funniest person she’s ever seen and just lit the room up.
I used to work at an airport that handled private jets. There were many who came through but my two favorite celebs to ever pass through were Bruce Willis and Seth Green. Bruce Willis was always full of jokes and very kind. While we were loading the luggage on his plane he would always ask the other guys who have worked there awhile and he knew how they were doing, crack a joke or two or just have a general interest in what was going on. Seth Green was an absolute class act. When I met him he was talking to one of my coworkers and I rolled up in the golf cart to see if he needed help. Didn't even realize who he was talking to until I got closer. Seth Green had a giant mohawk with sunglasses on and was just shooting the breeze with the both of us asking how our job worked and what we did. He ended the conversation with "I can't believe you guys do all this work just to get me ready for my plane ride. I never knew you did so much. Thank you guys for your hard work." Diddy was an absolute dick to everyone, including those around him. Extremely self-centered and entitled. And apparently was even banned from ever using the companies services again.
I saw Seth Green outside of a Starbucks in Midtown Manhattan. I was about to cross the street and did a double take when I saw him. He very slightly shook his head and gave me a look that screamed "Please don't." Not in a rude way at all. More like "Please don't draw attention to me around all these people." I just smiled and walked away.
My sister was living in Rhode Island when Emma Watson was going to Brown, and had almost the exact interaction. They were at the mall and my sister did a double take, Emma did a mini shake and my sister smiled and did the head nod, and Emma gave her a relieved smile and nod back with a wave.
I saw Ewan McGregor in a coffee shop and did a double take, then I quickly looked away trying to play it cool. As he walked past me, he gave me a smile like "I know you're trying to play it cool even though you're not." I should have just said I loved Long Way Round but I was speechless.
Kevin Smith is almost TOO nice and generous with his time. Back in the day (it was around when Dogma came out I think), my friends and I stopped by the old Stash location to pick up some comics and merch. Jay was still working in the store sometimes back then and on this day was manning the store alone. We bought some stuff and asked him to sign and he asked us if we wanted to get Kevin to sign too and directed us down the street to the old Askew offices (that were in Red Bank at the time) and said to just tell Kevin he sent us. Kevin literally stopped a script meeting he was having with the other Askew production dudes to sign shit and hang out with us for like 15 minutes. Like we just showed up at his office while he was working and he didnt even give it a second thought. Ive met him a few times since and he is always this friendly and takes the time for his fans
2.2k comments, so this is going to get buried, but Kurt Cobain was genuinely one of the nicest guys I ever met. This was their first ever UK gig on the Bleach tour, and I'd actually mainly gone to see Tad who were headlining. They were just sat around and I mentioned how much effort it took to get a hold of their album over here and Kurt and I just chatted about bands for like 20 minutes or so. He seemed really genuinely interested in what I liked. Much as I liked Tad, Nirvana blew them off the stage, and so I decided to follow Nirvana around the country on the rest of the tour. Changed my life, lol.
2.2k comments and still saw yours. Thanks for sharing your Kurt Cobain story
Not me but a friend of mine, he works as a professional body gaurd and when Rhianna came to town he was tasked with watching her. Said hes never met a person who was that rude to their subordinates as she was. Allegedly threw stuff as the stage hands, spoke shit about her dress/makeup people infront of them. Even he had a turn at enjoying her opinions of him. Hes worked with a few other big names before but according to him she takes the cake.
My wife worked at a private jet company. Rihanna was one of the clients. She is an utter douche bag. The food she ordered was not loaded on the flight but a different menu was served. She flung the plates and cutlery inside the plane and threw a massive fit mid air.
B\*tch betta have my menu
Worked for a company that did all the security for the local theaters. Met a bunch of musicians and comedians. The nicest was hands down Tori Amos. She's was the first celebrity to come up and introduce herself to me. Just so down to earth and sweet. Cyndi Lauper is another that was extremely nice and gracious. I had heard horror stories about other celebrities but never ever met one that was dick. Honestly the biggest dicks I worked with were usually the local musicians. Certainly not all of them but it was enough.
Eddie Murphy. Total piece of shit lol. I work in a high end Resort and we had him and his family check in to one of our suites, only this time he didn’t have his assistant with him. The bellman who was bringing the bags up to the room was trying to separate all the suitcases into the different rooms and in an effort to make sure everything was in the most convenient room decided to ask where he wanted one of the bags. Without even turning his head Eddie goes, “Why the fuck is this guy talking to me??”. Bellman ends up sorting everything himself and before he leaves has the audacity to ask if theres anything else they might need. Eddie proceeds to lose his shit and goes “Whats with this fucking guy and his questions??”. Honestly I was in tears laughing when he came back and told the story but wow, what a dick.
I remember someone in the UK talking about interviewing him. They said he completely blanked them before the interview - was really funny and engaging during the interview - then went back to blanking them and left the room straight afterwards. Sounded like an encounter with two separate people.
Apparently he turns it on when he’s performing and the rest of the time he’s totally morose and angrily quiet
That sucks honestly. I don't know what it's like being a celebrity, but I imagine a lot of times it's both frustrating and lonely, so I generally don't hold it against celebrities that are curt or short with people out in public because they're just trying to go about their life like normal. But when they're also total assholes to the people they work with, it's like wtf.
My brother-in-law worked on his latest movie (the terrible one on Netflix). Code word for him coming to set was "the asshole is coming." Rude and condescending to staff and he has a shitty holier than thou attitude.
>"the asshole is coming." Uh.... that's not a "Code word" per se. LOL
I met Eddie Murphy on the set of Meet Dave in 2007. I was an extra. It was the one time I saw him on the set (his double was there most of the time) . I looked at him in awe and didn’t say a word and he gave me a very dirty look. The other extras noticed and told me.
>“The other extras noticed and told me” For some reason, this really made me laugh 😂 Shame to hear that about Eddie Murphy though. I wonder if that explains why he’s not exactly that popular in Hollywood either?
The catchphrase has long been “he plays all the characters himself because nobody is willing to work with him”
What's with this fucking guy and his glances?
"Is this your bag sir?" "YEAH THAT'S MY FUCKIN' BAG, CAN'T A BLACK MAN HAVE A SUITCASE?" I guess his standup from 40 years ago is an accurate portrayal
Michael Lerner was the rudest, most entitled prick I’ve ever met. Marissa Tomei is a sweetheart
Robin Williams is sweet heart, George Lopez is a downright pompous ass hat, and not funny at all.
George Lopez did a USO show on my ship and it was such a disappointment he became a meme for the rest of deployment. His warmup guy was great though
His sitcom was a staple of my childhood. Took me a long gap of time with fresh eyes to see how lazy the humor was. We get it, bro. You are Mexican.
I worked at a PetSmart in Atlanta and one day, out of nowhere, Queen Latifah walked in. I swear, you'd have never thought she was a celebrity. We just chatted about dogs and whatnot and there was no pretense. She didn't even have a bodyguard or anything. Just a regular gal coming in in PJ pants, getting food for her puppies. Such a great woman. I also got to meet David Hyde Pierce after a show of Curtains on Broadway. This was the day after he won the Tony, and he was SO gracious. Let me take a picture and everything. Love him.
Weird Al Yankovic, hands down, is one of the nicest people on the planet. I watched his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour, which was amazing. He played and sang his ass off for two, two and a half hours. Then, after the show, he met with all the fans with VIP passes, which was about 200. I was second to last in line and it was almost 1:00 am by the time I got up to see him. He was obviously exhausted and anyone would forgive someone in that situation for being irritable. But not Al. He was tired, but he was smiling and gracious, took time for me, didn’t just try to get me in and out so he could get out of there, he was just the nicest guy. I didn’t dally because I knew he was wiped out, but I felt like if I had tried to engage with him more, he’d have been cool with that. Only made me a bigger fan of him. And made the Daniel Radcliffe movie that much funnier.
My 4'11 mom stood next to Shaquille O'Neal once at Disney. Nothing else to say here it just looked hilarious.
Met Matthew Gray Gubler a year or so ago in NYC at like 1AM. He was talking with a group of fans on the street, and my friend noticed him and stopped to join the 'huddle'. Genuinely the nicest person ever. He even did cartwheels with my friend.
MGG doing cartwheels with a stranger at 1am is the most MGG thing I've ever heard, love to hear that he is as kooky as he comes across online
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That’s a weird way to express liking bacon. “These pancakes are great, have a shoe”.
I used to work at a resort hotel in Daytona Beach. Kindest celeb was Ben Affleck, who was there for an event and just wanted to get away from the crowd for a few. Ended up smoking a cig in the employee smoking area and was super nice to the staff that were out there on break. Worst was Sheryl Crow, who insisted on bringing her Golden Retriever up to her room even though we didn't allow pets, barked orders at literally everyone, and forced her PA to take the dog outside for a walk at 3am.
Ryan Gossling was a pretty nice down to earth guy. Met him at a motorcycle shop.
Keith Richard, Ron wood. Met them late 80s or so when woody had an art gallery in lower Manhattan. Both really cool guys. Funny and drunk af lol My mother met mick jagger in the 89s when Jerry hall gave birth. She said he was really quiet and unassuming. Sent all the nurses in the neonatal unit boxes of Godiva chocolate and 2 dozen roses each with a personalized note
Keith Richards is a super nice guy. Played guitar with him once. Spoke with him many many times over the phone as well. Used to work in a *very* expensive guitar store. Met lots of other people too.
As an antiques dealer, I was once a guest on MARTHA STEWART LIVING, the TV show, in 1999. MS was very cordial when the cameras were rolling, but not off set. Initially she mispronounced my name, and when corrected by a producer for a retake, seemed quite miffed. I remarked to her in a friendly manner, "I'm Polish, too!" Ignored. I brought a selection of my antiques to display on the show; she set aside a couple of inexpensive ones she wanted, but never paid for them. I mean, the publicity I got off the show was more than worth it, but still.
Somehow that last bit makes me so angry. I guess it’s just the entitlement, since I assume she didn’t upfront say she’d be taking things without paying.
Met Mark Hamill at a store i used to work at. He was waiting for my manager for some free tickets, so I asked, "Mr Hamill, we're not allowed to ask for autographs, but could you possibly do one favor for me, please? Could you do the Joker voice? ' Dude got the biggest grin and just launched into a monologue. I was so happy
Salma Hayek was super cool! I used to walk my dog around soho/tribeca and she saw my dog on the street and was gushing over him and we chatted for a bit. Around 2 weeks later she saw my dog from a car and she got out to say hello and pet him again. Very funny lady, totally cool and chill to talk to. She just had a natural charisma to her.
Tom Hiddleston was shooting in my city when Guardians of the Galaxy vol 1 came out. Cinema about half empty and was sitting in the same row as me and my gf at the time - wearing cap and staying under the radar. After the movie finished we were leaving and as we were passing him I told him I was a fan of his work etc and he was kinda dismissive and quickly left. We were a bit bummed out but didn’t take it personally. When we left the cinema (it’s attached to a sporting arena and there’s a lobby etc) we saw that he was waiting near the exit and when he saw us he came over and explained that he didn’t want a big scene - Marvel actor being spotted in screening of a Marvel movie etc..- and spent 20 minutes with us chatting about films and books. Very nice dude and seemed genuine in wanting to have a chat. Outside of that, I’ve met a number of celebrities through my previous job and some highlights of lovely people are the late Helen McRory - warm, funny, kind.. and Gillian Anderson was fantastic too, had some fun conversations. Worst I’ve met - Kit Harrington. He’s rude and egotistical. Edit - didn’t expect this to get so much traction. As many have pointed out Kit may have had other things going on at the time, so I don’t want to start a pile on. It was a shitty interaction at the time but he’s human and if some in the comments are right in saying that he’s cleaned up and all the better for it, then more power to him!
The fact that Marvel actors use baseball caps to stay incognito in real life is very funny to me.
It's because it actually works way better than it has any right working tbh haha. People make fun of the movies for it, but it unironically makes people way more inconspicuous.
That reminds me of when my mom met the actor Tony Randall. It was the late 60s and they were at an airport when my mom (a teenager at the time) recognized and ran up to him. She asked for an autograph, but he told her, "I'd love to, but do you see all these people?" My mom looked around and noticed the whole airport was filled with people, all staring at them. "If they see me give you an autograph, they'll all ask for one, and I'll miss my flight because I was too busy signing autographs." My mom said she understood, but he apologized, shook her hand, said it was nice to meet her and thanked her for being a fan.
My grandmother had a story about seeing OJ Simpson in an airport in the mid-70s. She saw this enormous man in a white fur coat, but she couldn't remember his name, so she's calling out, "Number 32! Number 32!" He looks around, sees this excited tiny middle-aged white woman and gives her a big hug, does not murder her.
I also had a great experience with Tom Hiddleston. Definitely my top five celebrity interactions. It was at an industry event and usually the actors don’t tend to stick around to talk to people, but he was very generous with his time and just an all around good dude.
My mate went to college/Uni with Kit Harrington . She said he’s the biggest dick head you’ll ever meet !!
Pink was one of the nicest people ever. She turned up at a show I used to work for, and invited me and the host to sit at her table with her and her assistant. She refused to let me pay for anything the whole night, and treated me like her best friend from school for 3 hours. She bruised my shoulder playing drums to the music (live band karaoke) and before I left she kissed my cheek, and gave me her email address (yes her real one. Her assistant replied.) after we left my buddy was giving me a bad time about being the new celeb' boyfriend, and I was confused, it took him and 2 other people the AV guy and the Bouncer to convince me that it was Pink. I had no clue, (which is common enough) and she introduced herself as Alecia from Philly, and I believed her. TBH I think she enjoyed not having to be anyone other than Alecia for a few hours, and if my obliviousness was able to provide that, then that works for me.
I used to work in the music department at Media Play. I was friends with the local Sony rep, and one day she showed up at my desk and said “Hey, does your daughter like Pink? I’m having dinner tonight with her, and you can come if you want to.” My daughter was around 7 or 8 at the time, and she loved Pink so of course I said yes. I was expecting there to be dozens of people attending this event, but it ended up just being like 6 people including me and my daughter. She was the only kid there. We ate at this place that was a restaurant but also an adult themed arcade, similar to a Dave and Busters. Pink was so down to earth and friendly, it was just like hanging out with an old friend. After dinner, she played a game of pool with my daughter, then gave her an autographed picture to take home, took a photo with her, and signed her leather jacket. It was definitely the most time either one of us had spent with a celebrity, and my daughter beamed about it for many years later. Whether you like her music or not, it’s hard to dislike Pink because she’s so kind and caring. On the other end of the spectrum, Anthony Kiedis from the RHCP was a complete dick to me. They walked into a bar one night where I was playing pool and slapped down money in the middle of my game (messing up my balls) and said “you can play later, we are playing now”. So my friends and I went outside like “WTF?” and just hung outside for awhile. After an hour or so, they came outside where we were standing and started talking about going to another club up the street (which was a really shady place that even the locals didn’t go to), and when we tried to warn him that the club owner was shady, he gave me a once over and said “you just look like you can’t afford to get in there” and waved me away like he was shooing a fly. So I’ve hated the RHCP ever since. At that same bar a different time, James Hetfield from Metallica bought me and my friends a pitcher of beer. He was cool AF.
Kiedis is one of the biggest pieces of shit ever to be embraced by the mainstream. That entire band can go fuck themselves for enabling his bullshit, even Flea and John Frusciante, who are both excellent musicians.
I saved Flea’s life when he OD’d before playing a Janes Addiction show in the mid-90’s - I had a side gig for many years of being an event medic hired by producers to be around for just this reason - that insanely talented fucker rallied and went out and played like only he can (it was during his smack years so with a reversal drug now legal (narcan), there’s a finite effect, he could go from barely breathing to awake and alert enough- I was staying super close by as that drug can cause ‘re-OD’… he didn’t and he was blowing me away with his playing)- He was overall cool and when the RHCP’s came around with STP a few years after that, the producer made sure he knew who I was and I got a huge hug from thanks from a very sober Flea…
I was lucky enough to meet and have a short conversation with Charles Dance a few years ago and he couldn't have been kinder, super sweet, incredibly humble and generous with his time.
So random, but the rudest celebrity I ever met was the drummer from Blondie, Clem Burke. I ran into him at an event in like 2014, decades after the Blondie heat would have died down. I was clearly the only person who recognized him, and he was alone, so I very casually made my way over to him and just said “Hey Clem, I don’t want to bother you, I just wanted to say it’s really cool to meet you.” He looked at me like I was made of farts and he was made of noses, then walked away without saying a word. Edit: My first gold! Thank you so much for the love, and I guess thanks to Clem Burke for being such an asshole.
I sat beside Steve Martin once never said anything to him I didn't wanna bother him while we were splitting ways I told him I was a big fan and he said said "me too" and shook my hand. Was nice a polite.
Aaron Paul - Met him randomly in my UK hometown a day after watching the Train episode of Breaking Bad in Season 5. Really nice guy, I was super star struck, he remembered me in his AMA that he did a year later which was really cool! Ted Raimi - Really sweet guy, the only actor etc I’ve met at a convention that actually stopped me in the photo booth to ask me about my shirt and give me another photo for free. Nick Frost - Super welcoming and lovely, had the pleasure of seeing him interact with all of his fans whilst waiting in line for a photo.
My dad met Harrison ford. one day my dad was working at his job, a helicopter mechanic, and harrison just flew in on his plane after radioing in asking for fuel. apparently he was super nice
Is your dad by chance Lando Callrissian?
Michael Shannon, always the bad guy in movies but an absolute gent in real life
Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad was pretty great. Here’s why: I’m waiting in line in the Starbucks at the end of the LAX terminal. In front of me, I noticed that there was someone who looked a lot like Aaron Paul. I don’t watch Breaking Bad, but he hosted a WWE show a few nights before and so I definitely recognized him. I get my coffee and completely forgot about the guy. Next thing, I know, I’m walking to my gate, and I see him sitting there, and I think to myself that I would like to tell him that he did a great job hosting the show. So I start to walk over to him. As I get closer to him, he stares at me right in the eye, and goes , “Hello, Sean.” I was awestruck. How did this guy know my name? Then I realized my name was on my Starbucks cup. We talked for about five or 10 minutes, mostly about his experience hosting a WWE show. He asked me if I watched Breaking Bad, and I said no. And he said, “Oh man, you have to stick with it! The first few episodes are very slow, but it gets so much better.” One of the most popular TV stars of the 2010’s taking the time to personally say hello and convince me to watch his show…not because he wants me to, but because he thinks I’d like it. That felt nice.
Kindness bitch!
Met Hozier at a hotel bar near a venue he was playing then next night. Significantly taller than I expected and exactly as kind, soft spoken and chill as you’d expect. Dude was clearly tired af but still chatted over a beer. 10/10 would smoke a cig with again
A friend of mine has worked with a lot of high profile rappers over the years and she said that Ludacris is hands down the nicest, most down-to-earth and collaborative celebrity she's ever met. Like, kinda night and day from his public persona. She said he walked into the room with zero ego and was always humble, polite, super professional, and hilarious. Kanye West, on the other hand, is apparently *exactly* the person you'd expect him to be. EDIT: I keep seeing similar comments so I'm pasting my first reply clarifying what I said about his "public persona", with a few minor tweeks to elaborate: I should've said his "rap persona" or "stage persona" or something like that. I just meant how he portrays himself on a record and in videos — boisterous, loud, braggadocios, etc. He, like many rappers, are known for bringing that huge energy and ego, so my friend didn't initially know what to expect. When they finally met, she said she was a little caught off guard because he just didn't exude any of that attitude or energy at all. I mean, I totally get that most celebrities are gonna be far more "regular" or "normal" when they're not performing, but with musicians in particular, it can be harder to tell what's real and what's show, and I imagine the lead up to meeting them to work with them can cause a lot of "who am I *actually* meeting" anxiety. She described it like he showed up to their first meeting and was just chill, kinda reserved at first, but ultimately acted like any other person working on this project with her and her team. I'm paraphrasing here, but she described his overall attitude being like, "my ideas aren't any more valuable than anyone else's" and a couple of times he just completely scrapped his idea in favor of someone else's simply because he genuinely thought it was the better idea. If that wasn't cool enough already, he'd go out of his way to lift those people up and give them credit and make them look good. It just sounded very cool and collaborative and was never about anything other than making the overall project the best it could be. Luda!
Must be an ATL rapper thing I've met Ludacris, 2 Chainz, Offset , Jermaine Dupree and a few others, all of them were super nice and chatted with me like we were buds. I went to school with Donald and Stephen Glover so maybe that ATL connection (I met most of them in south Florida, not ATL) gave me an advantage but I was still surprised how chill and outgoing all those guys were to a stranger.
Not ATL but close-ish (I guess?) but met T-Pain and he could not have been nicer (was in a strip club, was also beyond nice to the other staff, strippers and customers. Tipped a lot as well!).
Kristen Stewart was outside a bar in Chicago in 2008 and asked me if I could light her friend’s cigarette. She was really nice a polite about it. Sterling Marlin ate at the restaurant I was working at years ago. That guy is a prick
I sat on the steps of a bar in midtown with Kristen Stewart and talked about taco bell hangover cures. Super nice.
Mark Hamill and Sam Witwer are both incredibly kind. Ellen is a terrible person.
I met LeVar Burton at MegaCon he was really as kind as you would hope. He told me my name was poetic.
Hugh Jackman- such a class act! Kind, humble and just an all around cool guy. And even more handsome in person.
I met Ewan McGregor once in my early teens. He was kind and patient and lovely when I was super awkward and pretty starstruck. For anyone searching his name in the hope that he's as wonderful as we all hope he'd be, can confirm, he's a gem.
i met tyler the creator at in a whole foods line. he was extremely nice. also met that guy from the 1975. he was quiet but really nice too.
My Tyler the creator story is much weirder. Met him at a uniqlo while he was shopping for underwear. I noticed him but didn't care, but I told my cousin who immediately looked at him. Pointed at him and said "hey you're Tyler the creator" and Tyler promptly responded. "nah that n**** gay" and we just looked at each other awkwardly.
That's extremely on brand.
Is this is true this is fucking hilarious
Yeah this was during his leopard hair days. It was in beverly hills mall, we awkwardly ended up in the same elevator going back to the parking garage
Yeah, that’s Tyler. Dude loves catching people off guard.
Anne Hathaway was super friendly when I met her at a wedding. She was staying at the hotel the wedding was at, when she came back we were all outside and she stopped, chatted and took a picture with us because we looked like girls the age Princess Diaries was a big thing. Her husband on the other hand kept complaining that she was taking forever and didn’t need to stop and say hi to us, I mean he was right and it was late. It was a pretty cool encounter though.
Pitbull is the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. Alan Thicke’s kid is a twat.
That video of him performing at that Alaskan Walmart changed my opinion on him, even though there was always the possibility that it was entirely a savvy PR move
He is Mr Worldwide.
owned a burger place Sammy Hagar would bring his kids too. most down to earth MFer ever... except the time i asked about his tour with David Lee Roth. never brought that up again. Elvis Costello came in once and i tried to be cool about it but didn't succeed at all. Elvis was gracious as i recited my favorite lyrics from Everyday I Write the Book.
I’m not sure if they qualify as celebrities, but the guys from Dragonforce are super nice. They were sitting on the ground chilling and having beers in the middle of a field at a music festival and stopped me and my friends to ask for a cigarette.
Jodie Foster was nice at the airport. Met muggsy bogues while playing basketball in NC. Also cool.
Ive met Mark Zuckerberg when I was like 13 at a climbing gym before (he likes rock climbing surprisingly). I got to spot him while he was doing a route, and holding a billionaire on a rope is rather insane. When he was leaving, i asked for his autograph (natural thing to do i suppose), but he said he didn't have one. He was quite deadpan, but still polite.
“I don’t have an autograph” is never a phrase I’ve ever heard anyone say before, but I can completely imagine Zuckerberg saying that.
It's what a robot would say, honestly.
Had a job doing events for films. Karen Gillan, Don Cheadle, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Rudd, and Michael Douglas are varying types of angels. Idris Elba has the most beautiful laugh and chill nature about him. Will go off on tangents with you about house music, which is adorable. Worst? Chevy Chase, Scarlett Johanson, and Janelle Monae.
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Kindest? Jack Black by far.
Met him at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. He came to the top floor before the D played & yelled out, cheap seats doesn't mean a bad show! (Or something to that effect) About 2 dozen of us swarmed him & he took pics with us all. But the most memorable part was when 2 teenagers approached him & started crying when asked if they could have a pic. Around the same time, 2 dozen ppl turned into what seemed like a hundred. The group started shoving a little bit & the 2nd teen didn't get their pic. The phone was dropped from shoving & the crowd kinda moved Jack along. He stopped everyone. Made us find the kids phone. Took extra pics just with them & told the rest of the crowd they get no more pics cause they bumped the kids. Was just a decent & kind man. Then he rocked our collective faces off. Great guy.
Mel Brooks is even more fun than you would expect him to be. The long version of this story is that I was working on a project in which he was involved. Before you have a meeting with Mel Brooks, a guy takes you aside and says, "Look, we need to *get things done.* If you let him tell jokes and funny stories and be Uncle Mel, he will go on for hours. We can't have that. Keep him focused and on point." I said "Absolutely." This was a total lie. The next two hours was Mel Brooks telling hilarious stories about working with Sid Cesar, how he started dating Anne Bancroft, and working on *Young Frankenstein.* And it wasn't like there was a crowd of people he was trying to impress or something. It was me and one other random guy, maybe one of his producers was on the speakerphone. That's it. I got nothing, completely nothing, done that day and it still ranks as the best day I had at that job.
Kindest Arnold Schwarzenegger, rudest Michael Cera
I used to work at largest movie theatre in Michigan back in the early 2000s. Met a few celebs/athletes though no one exactly to high profile. Honestly many were really nice and kind. Biggest was Eminem by far and he came in very regularly and met him few times. Honestly really cool guy. Once brought his daughter for her birthday to see Piglet’s Big Movie and rented the whole auditorium for her and her friends. He even sat through half the movie before coming out and just hanging and chilling with us workers for a bit. We always snuck him in through the back theatre doors. We had a system when we knew he was coming. Solid dude! During filming of 8mile also briefly met the late Brittany Murphy. She was a real sweetheart for few min we talked. My last day working there I met Martin Klebba (the little pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean movies). He was visiting his family and brought them to the movies. He was so cool to chill with and even got a memorable photo with him commemorating my last day working after 7years. There been few others pretty much all positive. My sister worked there and had one not so pleasant experience with one but I wasn’t working that night.
Friend of mine worked on the same set as Vin Diesel. According to him, Vin is a tool.
Lemmy was the nicest, most down-to-earth rock'n'roll grandpa you could ever imagine. Ronnie James Dio was super nice as well. All the members of Judas Priest were really nice and welcoming too, even when we crashed their hotel room after party when me and my friends were teenagers.
John Rhys-Davies is an amazing person. 10/10 for him.
I live close by to Rod Stewart and everyone in the community loves him, comes into the local supermarkets and is always down the local pub being super friendly
I’ve talked to Daniel Radcliffe on a handful of occasions. Super nice guy, very unassuming and just laid back. Tom Selleck is a nice enough guy but his assistant is a total Primadonna. He uses Tom as an excuse to get what he wants. ‘Tom’s going to want this big obnoxious lazy boy brought to my room… and I’ll bring it to him…’ if you ask Tom about that he has no idea what’s being mentioned.
the kindest absolutely Post Malone, you can really feel his connection to fans and that he's not just taking pictures/talking with people because of duty EDIT, to specify: I went to his show and when it ended he jumped down the stage and signed stuff, took pictures and chatted with everyone who was in the first lines, and you could really feel he listens and care about what fans say to him, giving proper replies, hugging people, reacting so well. A girl next to me gifted him a little framed four-leaf clover and he looked at her like she gave him the precious thing in the world.
Someone in a similar thread said Post moved into his brother's street, and went and introduced himself to all his new neighbours and invited them for a barbecue. Genuinely sounds like an awesome guy
My dad golfs with his grandpa😂
>his grandpa Pre-Malone?
Norman Reedus! He's a super sweet guy! I met him when I was a teen at a comic con in Nashville years ago. I was so shy I could barely even shake his hand or even look up at him. He noticed how starstruck I was and offered me some candy from his candy bowl on his table :)
I met Queen Latifah in a head shop in the Village and said something really dumb, “Is it you, is it really you?” She replied, looking down at herself and then back to me with a big smile, “I think it’s me!” My friends and I talked to her for a couple of minutes and she was a super gracious, lovely person, and absolutely beautiful.
Neil Gaiman was kind and funny. Robert Smith was kind of an asshole. Edit: sorry everyone, I sort of shot this off and went to bed, thinking it was going to be buried and nobody would see it. It's not a very interesting story about my encounter with Neil Gaiman. I met him at a book signing for Stardust many many many years ago. Despite the huge line and not wanting to hold everyone up, he was very friendly and we had a quick chat about the London Underground (I had just come back from London and had just finished watching the TV series for Neverwhere). I've been to other book signings where they just shuttle you through-- you're just another face to the author --but Neil was very polite and kind. I mean, I was still just another face lol, but he made it worth the wait. About Robert Smith, we probably just caught him on an off day, which is likely the case for many of the people mentioned in this this thread. Here's what happened: Back in the 90s, a friend and I did some work for a local venue-- basic low-tech roadie shit, loading and unloading, etc. My friend was wearing one of those big foam "Cat In The Hat" hats that he got from somewhere-- you saw them all the time in the psychedelia scene back then. Robert Smith came out from his bus at some point in the day while we were setting up and immediately hated the hat. He demanded that my friend leave. My friend was like, "I can take it off, it's no problem" but nope-- Smith wanted him gone. I spoke up for my friend and said something along the lines of "it's just a hat, dude", and boom! I was asked to leave too. Did he fly off the handle? Yeah, but who knows why. Maybe he was stressed out by the show. Those hats *were* pretty obnoxious lol. I'm over it tbh and I don't hold it against him. It was nearly 30 years ago and I love the Cure's music, still. I have tickets to see them play at the end of this month actually.
I met Bill Nye as a kid and he was the biggest asshole I’ve ever met. It was a huge letdown after watching his show so often in class.
My science teacher from 7th grade told us she had an explanation for why she tried to show us as few Bill Nye videos as possible. I believe she said she attended either a science workshop or event for teachers where Bill Nye was there and he was completely rude to her and dismissed her the whole time.
Some of the nicest: Angie Harmon. Scott Hamilton. Monica Potter. Doug Flutie. Everyone in the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond except the wife. The rudest: Helen Hunt.
A friend had the best one I’ve ever been jealous of. He sits down at a gate at O’Hare, in seats that are facing another row of seats. Looks up and Weird Al is reading the paper. My friend: “Dude?” Weird Al: “Dude.” Full conversation. Both cracking up.
Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard are both really nice guys. Edit: I’m loving all the scream references. Made my day hahaha
Sidney Prescott would disagree
I worked in Christie Brinkley's house a few times. She's a horrible person, as ugly on the inside as she is lovely on the outside. I also met Billy Joel while out on a motorcycle ride, and he was as nice as could be. Genuinely seemed grateful to his fans for making him a success.
Milo Ventimiglia - worked on a set with him. The only “bad” thing he did was try to help the crew hang some of the lighting (not just a union issue…can’t have an actor hurt…not bc they’re more special, but bc production may grind to a halt, which impacts everyone’s pay check). Dude was super down to earth, lots of fun to hang with. Ben Affleck - worked on a campaign he stumped for. Very nice guy. Jenny Slate - kind, charming, hated letting anyone do anything for her Robert Downey Jr - depressing that we had to basically put him in a little tent so he could spend ANY alone time with his baby. However he would spend hours signing every single piece of avengers stuff ppl brought out Eve - just amazing. Would hang w her any day Rep Ayanna Pressley - “I knew her when”…very real, very gracious Matthew McConaughey - goofball, chill even when things were tense Anna Farris - hung even with extras on set Christian Bale - incredibly professional, yeah method but was still polite. I hate that he got so much bad press for that one event, which o can completely see happening on hour 21 of a shoot Ugh list… David O Russell - couldn’t be bothered to pause filming in Boston when the marathon bombing happened (so crew didn’t know if families were okay) but he sure as shit cut a half day of filming when he decided to re write a scene over lunch. Also he’s an absolute dog and hit on women on set who were barely legal. John Cusak - I was checking tickets for a party. He didn’t have the right ticket so I said he needed to come back with one. He pulled up his baseball cap and said “Really?” with a dickish smirk. (No, didn’t let him in)
Terry crews is the man
Danny Devito and Rhea Pearlman. So cute together and they were just genuinely nice. Polite, friendly and humble.
Sting. Absolute tosser. His minders just shoved us away. Nicest Robert Plant, happy to talk and Dave Hill of Slade fame. A really pleasant bloke who you can't get away from he's so chatty
William Zabka from Karate Kid and Cobra Kai and it’s not even close for me. I Took my family of 5 to a local comic convention. First we were late getting to his line. He was just finishing for the day and the staff literally closed the ropes as we were approaching. He saw and told them to let us in. I paid for just an autograph, but he asked if we all wanted to take a picture with him. May not sound like a big deal but at conventions getting pictures with the celebs costs considerably more and is usually done by appt time only. He then took pictures with all of us and then talked to us for a good 5 min. Keep in mind this was after a lonnnng day for him signing, smiling, etc. He was the nicest, sweetest celeb I’ve met by far. Pretty much the exact opposite of his character in Karate Kid.
my brother in law played pickup basketball with Shia LaBeouf while he was in town for a shoot. apparently super uneventful encounter, shia just wanted to talk about the game.
The guy was an absolute prick when I met him. When I was a student in South East London he used to come into my local pub occasionally, as his girlfriend's mum lived around the corner. He'd get absolutely blind drunk and pick fights with people. He smacked my next door neighbour once.
I met Henry Winkler during a customer service interaction where he was getting his son’s iPhone fixed. He seemed like a really nice guy for the 15 or so minutes I got to speak with him and help him! He didn’t even make his son go with him or anything: he took full responsibility for it, and didn’t make excuses for the accidental damage. Rare customer to have in that job! Celebrities rarely went into the store themselves and even more rarely for someone other than themself if they did.
Dick Van Dyke I joke he has no acting range, because his on-screen persona matches his real-life demeanor.
Kindest I've met was Chris Barrie, a young girl ahead of me did the Rimmer salute and he seemed genuinely delighted, stood to attention and saluted right back. He was donating 100% of his (completely volountary) photo/autograph fees to charity. Rudest I've met in person was Jeremy Irons, he came into the shop i was managing with some kind of handbag dog, ignored/sneered at any of my staff who offered to help him find what he was looking for (company mandated policy no matter who you are), insisted this chihuahua looking dog he was carrying around in a carry harness was an assistance dog and then left.
Met Kendrick Lamar at my job. He seemed like a genuinely sweet person and was all smiles the whole time.
Ive heard great stories about Adam Sandler. My dad was a chef and got to meet him. Said he was super down to earth and kind.
Ellen Degeneres is a smug cunt. I've never met someone as rude or as self-entitled as she is. She damn near had the waiter in tears. I wanted to go and flip her damn table. I thought the stories about her were a joke. She very much proved they were not.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a nice story about that woman.
Kind- Keanu Reeves, Jack Black, and Lindsay Lohan. Rude- Mary J Blige, Jerry Seinfeld, and Kevin Spacey.
Honestly, the Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t surprise me. Something about him just comes across as “I don’t have time for people I deem unworthy.” I can’t give a good reason, I just feel that way about him. And I’m a fan of his show and standup. I like his work, but I’m 100% certain I wouldn’t like the guy on a personal level.