Someone famous on the street?
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- Noggin0
I saw Ian McKellan in SF the other week, wearing very bright clothes.
Still took people a second to realise.
- waterhouse0
Wouldn't realize it until they had passed me.
- autoflavour0
i would get in my van, follow them to a quiet area then abduct them for my collection
- oh wait, thats an episode of the simpsonsautoflavour
- Comic book guy.bainbridge
- Miguex0
It depends. I ran into Quentin Tarantino outside of a bar in LA. And I went up to him, shook his hand and expressed my admiration to him. He was thankful and appreciative with me, but he was a bit upset at the 2 paparazzi that were next to me snapping photos of him and his 2 ladies.
( I had a DSLR hanging of my neck, but was too excited to remember to snap a shot, later on I heard the paparazzi talking about me and one said something like, is this guy new? he didn't even take a single photo)
- ha, he probably thought you were the nicest paparazzi everinteliboy
- right? I was like.. man I love your work, very inspiring, I just wanted to shake your hand and tell you that, that's all.Miguex
- Quentin's fuckin dopemoldero
- What do they do with photos of him? They can sell them?omahadesigns
- albums0
I used to live in Venice and see them all the time at Whole Foods, they're just people, leave them be, most people do, then occasionally there is the one weirdo who wants to be a fan and say something.
I'm friends with a fairly popular girl on a soap opera, I brought along a friend from KS when eating out in Venice one night and my friend could barely contain her shit and kept texting people she knew.
I ended up taking her phone away until after dinner. she understood.
- Yeah, it must be annoying to be famous and in public.bainbridge
- utopian0
Sounds like self-denigration, just sayin...
- Projectile0
I was once in Hampstead Heath in London doing some exercises, and was doing them next to this fucking legend. Didn't say a word but smiled at him and we just had a "yeah we the only ones badass enough to be here at 6am" moment.
I see Ricky Gervais and a few other famous faces in that park, but none who I really love as much as Vas. It was all I could do to stop myself from say "you're going to have to work very hard to stay alive, my pedigree chum!"
- that's what you thought. he was thinking "stop smiling at me you faggot"sine
- HA! Likeing the way you calling him Vas :p Legend! Imagine how many times he must have to talk about sour milkJamiehutber
- HijoDMaite0
haha i use to work at a health food store in Huntington Beach where Peter North was a regular. I worked in the Vitamins department so he used to come to me for advice on new products. Turns out his regular purchases included Chelated Zinc, assorted mineral supplements and those muscle-head drinks with the Ephedra in em'. we talked all the time, he would come in with a baseball cap on, some girls took photos with him but I never mentioned his work. it was an unspoken respect.
true story.
- Peter North?utopian
- hahaHijoDMaite
- not really "famous", just in some circles.HijoDMaite
- Maybe he could cast you?bainbridge
- did you shake his hand or fist bump?CALLES
- bainbridge0
For the record, I wasn't saying I do it or recommend anyone bother any strangers. But did had this conversation with someone recently.
- HijoDMaite0
- Peter North = Porn Star from the 90'sHijoDMaite
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HijoDMaite - dead?utopian
- Kanye's kid alter ego?bainbridge
- Weird. He aged very well but looks very different somehow.CyBrainX
- scarabin0
i run into musicians and actors a lot but never say anything unless i actually have something to say to them, which is rare. if i want to become friends with them i'd much prefer it to start on a professional, collaborative level than from a fanboy level. unless we're just standing around with drinks or something in which case i might strike up a conversation
- kingsteven0
Game of Thrones shooting here ATM. They're everywhere, John Snow eats in the restaurant my GF works at... between there and the pub, saw him 4 times last week...
- lowimpakt0
i shook the hand of BB King
- eoin0
In Dublin, no one really gives a shit if someone famous is walking around. Happens regularly and people tend to just ignore them and they ignore everyone else, it works pretty well. But a couple of years ago Sean Penn was in town making a film, and everywhere he went he had about four minders surrounding him, really drawing attention to himself like a big fuckwit. Anyway, I was walking home from work one evening, the same public street I always walk, and guess who's walking ahead of me with his bunch of dicks minders? Yes, Sean fucking Penn. And they are walking really slow, making a point of their presence. So I try to walk ahead of them on the narrow footpath and one of the minders starts to block me saying I can't pass. I say something like 'I'm trying to catch my train, I live in this city' and continue to walk, and the little prick pushes me off the footpath! And Sean Penn goes "You shouldn't have to be told twice". Prick!
- Minders = British speak for bodyguards?omahadesigns
- Yup.eoin
- And yet we're supposed to respect Mr Penn's highly-valuable and frequent political opining...detritus
- What an angry cock wound that guy is.detritus
- opps! That is pretty dam gayJamiehutber
- lol @ angry cock woundeoin
- bulletfactory0
Steve Buscemi lives on my street (2 blocks down), so we have run into each other a number of times walking down the sidewalk or at the local bagel shop. Just kind on nod at at each other.
The first time we passed each other on the sidewalk, we did the awkward, "i'm trying to get out of your way, you're trying to get out of mine, but we both zig and zag to the same side of the sidewalk thing... twice."John Turturro also lives a few blocks away, so we see him out and about. The first time we saw him we were standing on the same street corner waiting for the walk signal. I discreetly attempted to tell my wife who we were standing by, but she couldn't hear me and, rather loudly said, "WHO?!?" So I repeated myself, and then she realized who it was. By then John was just staring right at us. We ended up going the same way, sharing the sidewalk for a few blocks. We tried to 'play it cool,' but felt like doofuses.
- steve buscemi seems like a cool dude to knowscarabin
- Yeah, wish i felt like I could chat with him - he seems like he's on a mission when he walks in the neighborhood - trying not tobulletfactory
- get hounded by people.bulletfactory
- Fuck yeah, Buscemi is the shit! I'm a huge Boardwalk Empire fan. I'd defo have a chat if I saw him.sem
- CygnusZero40
I bumped into the lead singer from the band Live, his name is Ed, and he is a total dick. Avoid if you see him.
- haha!bulletfactory
- this was actually a lot of years ago though. He might not be the same douchebag now.CygnusZero4
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Leave 'em alone.