Do stars have the right to be tired of being asked the same questions repeated a thousand times on the red carpet?
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My answer: put it on!
The video of Hugh Grant being interviewed by Ashley Graham on the red carpet has gone viral, as the British actor dared to answer the model’s questions with irony and sarcasm.
Grant is criticized and Graham is consoled.
Sorry, but in this fight, I’m “Team Hugh Grant”!
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The beautiful discomforts
“Unpleasant!”, “Uncomfortable!”, “Rude!”, “Worst Oscar interview ever!”, “Arrogant asshole”…
Here’s a sampling of the comments thrown at Hugh Grant following he half-heartedly answered questions from Ashley Graham on the (which this year was champagne-colored) red carpet.
The model asked the actor who he would like to see win. The actor replied, “No one in particular.” Hahaha, I love his frankness! Finally an artist who says the bottom of his thought.
Graham asks him, “What are you wearing?” He replies, “My costume.” She adds: “Who dresses you?” He replies, “My tailor.” Admit that we have all dreamed of an actor answering with irony these age-old questions from the red carpet!
It must be said that the interview started off on the wrong foot.
Graham approached him asking what his favorite aspect of the Oscars was. He replied, “All mankind is here. It is… Vanity Fair.»
Short explanation here.
Vanity Fair, in French, it is “the vanity fair”. Grant was saying sarcastically that for him, the Oscars were nothing more than a demonstration of the vanity of actors. Vanity Fairit is also, of course, the title of a book by the British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.
Except that Vanity Fairit is also the name of the magazine which, each year, organizes a big post-Oscars party.
The reference and the subtext seem to have passed six feet over poor Ashley Graham’s head: she understood that he was in a hurry to go to the party of Vanity Fair!
Hugh Grant has every right not to have patience with someone who asks predictable questions and doesn’t bounce back with repartee regarding their cultural credentials.
A guy has all the same the right to find that the questions which one puts to him are at the level of the daisies.
After that, don’t tell me that Hugh Grant had no right to roll his eyes like he did at the end of the interview.
Several commentators saw in this exchange a symbol of the alpha male who confronts the poor helpless little woman.
I saw in this dialogue of the deaf the British phlegm struggling with the superficial and gnangnan exuberance of the Americans.
An embarrassing interview for whom?
This interview is supposedly awkward for Hugh Grant. What if she was awkward for Ashley Graham? How regarding hiring interview professionals to do interviews?
It’s as if Graham had drawn his questions from the Handbook of Red Carpet Shots or in How to be as unoriginal as possible at the Oscars in 10 easy lessons.
On the “champagne” carpet, Ashley Graham wore a dress that looked like a two-piece bathing suit. Graham is a very pretty plus size model. But as an interviewer, she can go get dressed.
