Great Entertainer, Disappointing Interview

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Inspired by finding this clip of Eddie Kendricks (of The Temptations):



It’s only 2 minutes long but he still manages to be unable to recall simple parts of his life like how many siblings he had or when his career started. You can tell Dick Clark is familiar with Kendricks being a rough interview since he essentially feeds him answers and keeps things brief.

Great entertainer though! I’ve been listening to a lot of The Temptations lately, especially the Classic Five Era

[Big DSR Energy]

Robert De Niro has a reputation for this. All-time great actor, but his interviews are usually one-word or two-word answers.

[Paul]

[thechase]

Teri Hatcher and Jerry Springer's stints on QI

[Urn Anderson]

Jerry Lewis. Great comedian on screen, miserable grouch in interviews.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Was always disappointed by how little of an internal monologue Nicolas Cage seemed to have when he's interviewed.

Some truth to the best actors not having much of a personality of their own.

Also feel like I've never seen a Harrison Ford interview where doesn't seem like he was wishes he was anywhere else.

[Vampiro138]

listening to all the interviews Rick Rubin has done between his different podcasts, and I was sooo excited to see him and Trent Reznor over an hour! And damn, Trent is just so boring when he talks, dude makes Attorney Peter Francis Geraci look like LA Knight. I turned off the podcast after around 20 minutes.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Oct 29, 2023 19:26:23 GMT -5 Natural Born Farmer said:

Also feel like I've never seen a Harrison Ford interview where doesn't seem like he was wishes he was anywhere else.

For me, that's part of the appeal with Ford. He's a big enough star that he could refuse to do press tours and promotional work, so it's always entertaining to see him grumble his way through interviews. Even moreso when the interviewer is a putz who lobs inane questions Ford's way.

[darbus alan]

Sometimes it's also a bit with Ford. Though Jimmy Kimmel usually gets good stuff from him.

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Oct 29, 2023 20:41:37 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

Sometimes it's also a bit with Ford. Though Jimmy Kimmel usually gets good stuff from him.

Yeah, on most chat show settings he's clearly leaning into the grumpy old man routine. Not so much on press tours when he's answering the same questions for five or six hours and then some shlub from JoBlo or Den of Geek asks him who would win in a fight between Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

[Mozenrath]

This isn't all on him, but I remember borrowing a shoot Vader did with Rob Feinstein that was in the running for one of the worst I'd seen, and I could not finish it. Rob's production values, as was often the case, were poor, and Vader's soft-spoken to the extent where it was almost like he was trying to not wake up a baby in his lap or something, so it was virtually impossible to hear him clearly. Absolutely horrendous.

[Gunhaver]

Oct 29, 2023 20:19:45 GMT -5 Vampiro138 said:

listening to all the interviews Rick Rubin has done between his different podcasts, and I was sooo excited to see him and Trent Reznor over an hour! And damn, Trent is just so boring when he talks, dude makes Attorney Peter Francis Geraci look like LA Knight. I turned off the podcast after around 20 minutes.

Trent is a weird one for sure. I'm not very familiar with his music, but I've read a lot of interviews and pieces he's written about how we interact with different music formats, the relationships people have with songs, and things like that, and it made me a fan because it was so profound without being full of itself. But I get the feeling he doesn't like talking so much on the spot. If true, I can understand. It's a rare talent when someone can articulate themselves in the moment as well as they can when they can write and revise themselves.