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First, I will begin with my absolute favourite, which is that this 2017 interview of director David Lynch speaking about his Woody Woodpecker collectible figurines. The story goes that in 1981, Lynch noticed 5 Woody Woodpecker toys hanging up at a fuel station and “rescued” them. “I screech on the brakes, I do a U-turn, return, and I purchase them and I save their lives,” he recounted. “I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob, and Dan, they usually had been my boys they usually had been in my workplace. They had been my pricey mates for some time, however sure traits began popping out they usually turned not so good.” The interviewer famous that Lynch then regarded “straight forward” and stated “with a grim finality,” “They don’t seem to be in my life anymore.” To which I say…WTF???
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Not weird sufficient for you? Let’s discuss Robert Pattinson’s GQ profile, the place he talks about his enterprise thought for “pasta which you’ll maintain in your hand,” which he is named Piccolini Cuscino. He decides to attempt to make it for the interviewer as a result of “possibly if I say it in GQ, possibly, like, a accomplice will simply come alongside.” He then reveals the interviewer an outdated field of cornflakes, a large novelty lighter, 9 packs of presliced cheese, and sauce. He places on latex gloves and bends tinfoil right into a type of sphere that he dumps sugar, crumbled-up cornflakes, sauce, and the presliced cheese into. He tries to prepare dinner pasta within the microwave, then takes it out and says, “No thought if it’s cooked or not,” however places it within the foil in any case.
“I imply, there’s completely no likelihood that is gonna work. Completely none,” he tells the interviewer, then tops his creation with half a bun, which he burns a “PC” into with the novelty lighter, by accident burning his hand within the course of. He then wraps it up with extra foil, squeezes it a number of occasions, and decides to place it in what seems to be a microwave, however he claims is an oven, for 10 minutes. In keeping with the interviewer, whereas within the oven/microwave, “a lightning bolt erupts” and “Pattinson geese like somebody exterior has opened fireplace,” then crouches and giggles “because the oven throws off stray glints of sunshine and sound.” The oven/microwave goes darkish and he stares at it, saying, “Yeah, I feel I’ve to depart that alone. However that may be a Piccolini Cuscino.”
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Ezra Miller has develop into embroiled in controversy over the previous few years, however earlier than all that information broke, a GQ interviewer took a visit to their farm in Vermont for what turned out to be a particularly odd interview. Within the interview, Miller is getting ready to assist certainly one of their goats give delivery, then says their band is engaged on a steel music about it. They then sing/yell for the interviewer, “GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, IT IS COMING, IT IS COMING! GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, YOU CANNOT RUN, YOU CANNOT HIDE, IT’S GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, NO ESCAPING, NO ESCAPING, GOAT BIRTH!”…whereas fist-pumping.
Miller additionally tells the story of a ebook report they did in first grade. They selected the Stephen King novel Cujo after which did a particular challenge on it: “I purchased a giant stuffed-animal canine, and I lined it in blood. I made a tape recording, and I connected the play button of the tape recorder to the canine’s paw… The thought was that you just’d push the paw and also you’d hear, out of the voice of this bloody stuffed canine, my dramatic studying of Cujo.” Afterward, “the instructor very politely stated, ‘Ezra, we will put this within the closet till the top of the day, after which you are going to need to take it residence.” Miller additionally says they will “sense” when cellphones are round. And at one level, Miller tells a fan, “I’m Ezra. However you’ll be able to name me Lil Child, or Candy Bitch.”
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Johnny Depp’s Rolling Stone profile is really one of many wildest profiles I’ve ever learn. In it, Depp says (apparently credibly) that his outdated roommate was a financial institution robber, that he as soon as gave his complete home scabies, that he thinks there must be a Titanic remake shot fully in a bath, and that planes ought to have sprayed LSD over Iraq to seize Osama bin Laden. “You get a bunch of fucking planes, massive fucking planes that spray shit, and also you drop LSD 25. You saturate the fucking place. Each single factor will stroll out of their cave smiling, comfortable,” he advised the interviewer.
At one level, he breaks out a guitar and performs “Wonderwall.” The interviewer additionally has to shimmy over the fence to get out of his property as a result of Depp cannot work out learn how to open the gate. However the bulk of the interview is about Depp’s monetary troubles, noting his extravagant spending, like $30,000 a month on wine and the time he spent $3 million taking pictures Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes into the air utilizing a cannon. Although Depp claims, “It was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky” — it was truly $5 million — and “It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine, as a result of it was way more.”
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After the entire “changing Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2” controversy, Howard took up an fascinating pastime: making an attempt to show that 1×1=2 as an alternative of 1. In keeping with the interviewer, “He started writing down his logic, in a language of his personal devising that he calls Terryology. He wrote ahead and backward, with each his proper and left palms, generally utilizing symbols he made up that look overseas, if not alien, to maintain his concepts secret till they could possibly be patented.” He and his then-wife, Miranda Pak, started shopping for scissors, wire, magnets, and sheets of plastic, then spending as much as 17 hours a day chopping out and becoming a member of the plastic in ways in which had been meant to show his numerous mathematical theories.
The interviewers word that the room they’re in is totally stuffed with complicated constructing block–like plastic shapes which can be tied collectively or magnetically caught collectively — which Howard apparently loves as a lot as his personal baby. Howard tells the interviewer, “That is the final century that our kids will ever have been taught that one occasions one is one. They received’t need to develop up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they’ll know that one occasions one equals two. We’re about to point out a brand new fact. The true common math. And the proof is in these items. I’ve created the items that make up the movement of the universe. […] They inform the reality from inside.”
Howard’s relationship with Pak can be weird within the interview. Pak is in his home throughout it, and the 2 appear to be collectively, however the interviewer later discovers that they’ve filed for divorce and have not lived collectively shortly. When Howard leaves the room, Pak talks about him, saying that he would not assist out round the home and he or she “in all probability go away[s] him 30 occasions a month.” She additionally says they do not have a traditional life and have hardly ever gone to eating places collectively. “We’ve by no means been to the grocery store collectively. We’ve by no means been to the films. I’ve by no means gotten a present from him. […] After which each minute that he has free, it’s to do that,” she says, referring to the plastic objects. “I assist him, chopping, drawing and placing issues collectively. I’ve developed a slight type of agoraphobia recently. I by no means exit. I’ve no mates right here. I really feel like Rapunzel, , caught in a penthouse with my child.”
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I am actually jealous of the interviewer for this Chris Evans GQ profile that was achieved earlier than Captain America got here out, by which he flirts closely with the author and principally brings her into his interior circle for a number of days. She even stays at his home after getting drunk, performs a “soar over the pool desk” sport, and escapes by a window to attempt to get residence.
Chris’s quotes aren’t all that weird, although he does say that “the occasions in [his] life when [he’s] been happiest are the occasions when [he’s] seen, like, a sundown” or a waterfall, and appears to have a powerful affinity for top fives and making “jerk-off gestures when he was sick of listening to himself speak.”
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One other enjoyable long-form GQ profile the place the interviewer principally simply will get drunk and has a wild time with a celeb (excuse me, the place can I join that job?) is that this one with Channing Tatum, the place he takes the journalist “tenting.” One revelation from the interview is that Tatum likes to do what he calls “spontaneous residence invasion” on his mates, like Marlon Wayans, whom he stunned by exhibiting up at his pool bare.
Another highlights: They meet quite a few unusual characters, together with a person on the bar named “Atypical Tom,” who says he is referred to as that as a result of “the city already had a Psycho Tom and a Vietnam Tom.” Atypical Tom additionally reveals them his spouse, of whom he says, “She had most cancers. She’s in remission now, however she misplaced her enamel and her tit. She was once constructed like a brick shithouse.” They get dropped at a random man’s home to remain (the buddy of two guys they meet at a bar) however determine to sleep within the city’s deserted jail as an alternative, although they find yourself sleeping in Snuggies in some bushes exterior after Tatum decides {that a} creepy model contained in the jail cell is simply too scary to sleep subsequent to.
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I am additionally obsessive about this interview with Miles Teller the place he makes the interviewer minimize pork into tiny items for him, saying, “I haven’t got again enamel. I actually have 4 enamel.” The interviewer additionally blasts his look a bit, noting that he says, “I used to be excited about that at present, how I in all probability suppose I am better-looking than the general public thinks I’m” with amusing, “prefer it’s humorous that he is willed himself into the next tier of male magnificence by limitless confidence.”
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Again in 2022, Donald Glover actually interviewed himself for {a magazine} profile. His solutions aren’t *that* bizarre, however there are nonetheless a number of gems inside, like when he asks himself whom he fashions his profession after, and he replies “Willy Wonka.” However the strangeness of the interview largely comes from disagreeing with himself and asking himself questions that he then appears to get upset had been requested, like when he asks himself, “Are you afraid of Black ladies?” and Glover replies with, “Why are you asking me that?” and “I really feel such as you’re utilizing Black ladies to query my Blackness.”
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You gotta love this notorious Vulture interview with Quincy Jones, who did NOT maintain again when it got here to speaking about his fellow musicians and the music business generally. First, he claimed that Michael Jackson “stole plenty of songs” and was “grasping.” He additionally stated, “Rock ain’t nothing however a white model of rhythm and blues,” and the Beatles had been “the worst musicians on the earth. They had been no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass participant I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even discuss it.” He additionally stated he used to hang around with Donald Trump and referred to as him “a loopy motherfucker. Restricted mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him.” Jones was mates with Marlon Brando, as effectively, and claimed that Brando would “fuck something. Something! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”
He additionally spoke negatively about T-Ache and Bono’s music (although he referred to as Bono “my brother”). However probably the most weird half? Jones stated he knew “an excessive amount of,” together with who killed JFK, additionally alluding to realizing Hillary Clinton’s secrets and techniques and the Invoice Cosby allegations earlier than they had been made, saying, “We will’t discuss this in public, man.” Actually, he makes that declare a number of occasions, which makes me marvel…what does Jones know???
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RuPaul as soon as advised a narrative about watching a person drown — to us at BuzzFeed, no much less. “I keep in mind as soon as I had this place that ignored the Hudson River, and I noticed this man on a sailboat and it had capsized, and I went to the cellphone pondering, I’ve bought to name somebody. However then I believed, What’s one of the best factor I can do? what? I am gonna pray for this individual. I am gonna ship them loving vitality.” Because the BuzzFeed piece factors out, RuPaul doesn’t say whether or not the person survived.
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In an interview with Males’s Journal, Mark Wahlberg — who was speculated to be on one of many planes that crashed on 9/11 — stated, “If I used to be on that airplane with my children, it would not have went down prefer it did. There would have been plenty of blood in that first-class cabin after which me saying, ‘OK, we will land someplace safely, don’t fret.'”
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Sean Penn additionally bought fairly labored up about 9/11 in an interview with Selection, saying that if he had been president on the time, “I’d have let White Home counsel know that they’re on trip. I’m not consulting with them. If I’ve to go to jail, I’ll go, however I’m going to kill them. I’m killing everybody that did this,” he stated. As a result of apparently Penn is a few type of Liam Neeson–in–Taken–model vigilante.
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This one’s small, however it all the time makes me crack up. In 2016, Child Cudi stated of his music profession to this point: “Individuals suppose that I’ve peaked. I haven’t even gotten a f—ing nut off but,” he stated. “I’ve been pre-cumming for the final eight years. I haven’t even ejaculated a full spew but. So motherf—rs higher get ready.”
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And eventually, this one may not be fairly as weird as the remainder, however it’s nonetheless certainly one of my favourite interview quotes of all time as a result of it is simply so humorous and random. In a 2009 interview with Jesse Eisenberg, he says, “Individuals on the road generally will say imply issues to me,” and the interviewer asks for an instance. Eisenberg says, “I get referred to as Napoleon Dynamite as a result of I’ve curly hair. I dwell in New York Metropolis and I trip a bicycle. I all the time bike down Ninth Avenue, and there’s this child who goes to high school there named Abraham. Each time I move him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his mates giggle. That was a fantastic film, however I wasn’t in it.”
The interviewer then asks how Eisenberg responds to the boy. Eisenberg replies, “I say, ‘Please, Abraham, I’m not that man.” I simply can’t get previous the picture of film star Jesse Eisenberg being bullied by a baby named Abraham and nonetheless being painstakingly well mannered to him.
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