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First, I’m going to 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, go back, and I buy them and I save their lives,” he recounted. “I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob, and Dan, and they were my boys and they were in my office. They were my dear friends for a while, but certain traits started coming out and they became not so nice.” The interviewer famous that Lynch then appeared “straight ahead” and mentioned “with a grim finality,” “They are not in my life anymore.” To which I say…WTF???
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Not weird sufficient for you? Let’s speak about Robert Pattinson’s GQ profile, the place he talks about his enterprise concept for “pasta which you can hold in your hand,” which he is named Piccolini Cuscino. He decides to attempt to make it for the interviewer as a result of “maybe if I say it in GQ, maybe, like, a partner will just come along.” He then reveals the interviewer an previous 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 idea if it’s cooked or not,” however places it within the foil anyhow.
“I mean, there’s absolutely no chance this is gonna work. Absolutely none,” he tells the interviewer, then tops his creation with half a bun, which he burns a “PC” into with the novelty lighter, accidentally burning his hand in the process. He then wraps it up with more foil, squeezes it a few times, and decides to put it in what looks to be a microwave, but he claims is an oven, for 10 minutes. According to the interviewer, while in the oven/microwave, “a lightning bolt erupts” and “Pattinson ducks like someone outside has opened fire,” then crouches and giggles “as the oven throws off stray flickers of light and sound.” The oven/microwave goes dark and he stares at it, saying, “Yeah, I think I have to leave that alone. But that is a Piccolini Cuscino.”
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Ezra Miller has turn into embroiled in controversy over the previous couple of 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. In the interview, Miller is making ready to assist considered one of their goats give beginning, 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 guide report they did in first grade. They selected the Stephen King novel Cujo after which did a particular challenge on it: “I bought a big stuffed-animal dog, and I covered it in blood. I made a tape recording, and I hooked up the play button of the tape recorder to the dog’s paw… The idea was that you’d push the paw and you’d hear, out of the voice of this bloody stuffed dog, my dramatic reading of Cujo.” Afterward, “the teacher very politely said, ‘Ezra, we’re going to put this in the closet until the end of the day, and then you’re going to have to take it home.” Miller additionally says they will “sense” when cellphones are round. And at one level, Miller tells a fan, “I am Ezra. But you can call me Lil Baby, or Sweet Bitch.”
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Johnny Depp’s Rolling Stone profile is actually one of many wildest profiles I’ve ever learn. In it, Depp says (apparently credibly) that his previous roommate was a financial institution robber, that he as soon as gave his complete home scabies, that he thinks there needs to be a Titanic remake shot totally 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. Every single factor will stroll out of their cave smiling, blissful,” he informed 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 the way to open the gate. But the majority 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 capturing Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes into the air utilizing a cannon. Though Depp claims, “It was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky” — it was actually $5 million — and “It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine, because it was far more.”
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After the entire “replacing Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2” controversy, Howard took up an fascinating interest: making an attempt to show that 1×1=2 as a substitute of 1. According to the interviewer, “He began writing down his logic, in a language of his own devising that he calls Terryology. He wrote forward and backward, with both his right and left hands, sometimes using symbols he made up that look foreign, if not alien, to keep his ideas secret until they could 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 slicing out and becoming a member of the plastic in ways in which had been meant to show his varied mathematical theories.
The interviewers be aware that the room they’re in is totally crammed with complicated constructing block–like plastic shapes which might be tied collectively or magnetically caught collectively — which Howard apparently loves as a lot as his personal little one. Howard tells the interviewer, “This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one. They won’t have to grow up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they’ll know that one times one equals two. We’re about to show a new truth. The true universal math. And the proof is in these pieces. I have created the pieces that make up the motion of the universe. […] They tell the truth from within.”
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 does not assist out round the home and he or she “probably leave[s] him 30 times a month.” She also says they don’t have a normal life and have rarely gone to restaurants together. “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. […] And then each minute that he has free, it’s to do that,” she says, referring to the plastic objects. “I assist him, slicing, drawing and placing issues collectively. I’ve developed a slight type of agoraphobia recently. I by no means exit. I’ve no buddies right here. I really feel like Rapunzel, you recognize, caught in a penthouse with my child.”
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I’m truthfully jealous of the interviewer for this Chris Evans GQ profile that was finished earlier than Captain America got here out, during which he flirts closely with the author and mainly brings her into his internal circle for a number of days. She even stays at his home after getting drunk, performs a “jump over the pool table” sport, and escapes by means of a window to attempt to get dwelling.
Chris’s quotes aren’t all that weird, although he does say that “the times in [his] life when [he’s] been happiest are the times when [he’s] seen, like, a sunset” or a waterfall, and appears to have a powerful affinity for prime fives and making “jerk-off gestures when he was sick of hearing himself talk.”
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Another enjoyable long-form GQ profile the place the interviewer mainly 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 “camping.” One revelation from the interview is that Tatum likes to do what he calls “spontaneous home invasion” on his buddies, like Marlon Wayans, whom he shocked by exhibiting up at his pool bare.
Some different highlights: They meet a lot of unusual characters, together with a person on the bar named “Ordinary Tom,” who says he is referred to as that as a result of “the town already had a Psycho Tom and a Vietnam Tom.” Ordinary Tom additionally reveals them his spouse, of whom he says, “She had cancer. She’s in remission now, but she lost her teeth and her tit. She used to be built like a brick shithouse.” They get delivered to 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 a substitute, 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’m additionally obsessive about this interview with Miles Teller the place he makes the interviewer minimize pork into tiny items for him, saying, “I don’t have back teeth. I literally have four teeth.” The interviewer additionally blasts his look a bit, noting that he says, “I was thinking about that today, how I probably think I’m better-looking than the public thinks I am” with amusing, “like it’s funny that he’s willed himself into a higher tier of male beauty through limitless confidence.”
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Back 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.” But the strangeness of the interview principally 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 women?” and Glover replies with, “Why are you asking me that?” and “I feel like you’re using Black women to question 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 normally. First, he claimed that Michael Jackson “stole a lot of songs” and was “greedy.” He additionally mentioned, “Rock ain’t nothing but a white version of rhythm and blues,” and the Beatles had been “the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even talk about it.” He additionally mentioned he used to hang around with Donald Trump and referred to as him “a crazy motherfucker. Limited mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him.” Jones was buddies with Marlon Brando, as properly, and claimed that Brando would “fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”
He additionally spoke negatively about T-Pain and Bono’s music (although he referred to as Bono “my brother”). But essentially the most weird half? Jones mentioned he knew “too much,” together with who killed JFK, additionally alluding to figuring out Hillary Clinton’s secrets and techniques and the Bill Cosby allegations earlier than they had been made, saying, “We can’t talk about this in public, man.” In reality, he makes that declare a number of instances, which makes me marvel…what does Jones know???
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RuPaul as soon as informed a narrative about watching a person drown — to us at BuzzFeed, no much less. “I remember once I had this place that overlooked the Hudson River, and I saw this guy on a sailboat and it had capsized, and I went to the phone thinking, I’ve got to call someone. But then I thought, What’s the best thing I can do? You know what? I’m gonna pray for this person. I’m gonna send them loving energy.” As the BuzzFeed piece factors out, RuPaul doesn’t say whether or not the person survived.
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In an interview with Men’s Journal, Mark Wahlberg — who was alleged to be on one of many planes that crashed on 9/11 — mentioned, “If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.'”
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Sean Penn additionally obtained fairly labored up about 9/11 in an interview with Variety, saying that if he had been president on the time, “I’d have let White House 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 mentioned. Because apparently Penn is a few type of Liam Neeson–in–Taken–type vigilante.
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This one’s small, however it all the time makes me crack up. In 2016, Kid Cudi mentioned of his music profession to date: “People think that I’ve peaked. I haven’t even gotten a f—ing nut off yet,” he mentioned. “I’ve been pre-cumming for the last eight years. I haven’t even ejaculated a full spew yet. So motherf—rs better get prepared.”
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And lastly, this one may not be fairly as weird as the remaining, however it’s nonetheless considered 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, “People on the street sometimes will say mean things to me,” and the interviewer asks for an instance. Eisenberg says, “I get called Napoleon Dynamite because I have curly hair. I live in New York City and I ride a bicycle. I always bike down Ninth Avenue, and there’s this kid who goes to school there named Abraham. Every time I pass him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his friends laugh. That was a fine movie, but 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 cannot 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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