Former Channel 7 Hollywood reporter Nelson Aspen has named dropped the worst celebrities he’s ever interviewed.
Speaking with celebrity interviewer Kjersti Flaa on her YouTube channel, Nelson and the Norwegian journalist discussed some of the worst interviews they’ve ever had.
If Kjersti’s name sounds familiar, it’s because she recently rose to fame after posting an interview with Blake Lively that went viral online.
Nelson’s interview with Blake Lively
Nelson has also had interesting interactions with Blake Lively. He interviewed her twice, the first time was for the shark movie The Shallows and the second time was for A Simple Favour.
The first interview with Blake went swimmingly.
“I thought I was looking at a goddess, she is the most beautiful, exquisite creature I’d ever laid eyes on,” he gushed.
“I was really gobsmacked. Her personality matched her beauty. She was fun, she was playful, she great.”
However, according to Nelson, the next encounter with Blake wasn’t so heavenly.
“She answered every question with a question, combatively, it was not pleasant. Anna Kendrick did the same thing, ‘she’s like okay, this is girl power we are going to team up on the journalist’,” he alleged.
“I got through it, we cut it together, so that I had a couple of nice moments because I don’t want to make anybody else look bad.”
Sometimes it’s not the celebrity that causes issues, but the publicists!
Nelson had a run-in with Reese Witherspoon’s publicist. He said he was so frustrated with her publicist that he left halfway through!
In the mid-2000s Nelson interviewed Reese for her movie Rendition, at that point Reese was a mother to her two eldest children Ava Phillippe and Deacon Phillippe, Nelson asked a question about her being a mother but was shut down after two attempts.
“The woman is a mother, the character is a mother, so I was asking her something mother-related. And somewhere from the back in the dark, a voice comes: ‘Nelson move on to another question!’
“I’m thinking, ‘What, this is Nelson I’m the good guy! I’m not TMZ digging around for dirt! I’m a nice guy! I wanna make you look good, I wanna look good. I’m a team player!'”
He said he tried a second time but was shut down again. Nelson said he gave up.
“You might get four minutes with Reese Witherspoon, I left after two! It was pointless,” he said.
But do not fret, Nelson said that he and Reese have had more interviews since then and she “couldn’t have been sweeter”. Cute!
“We have to remind ourselves that celebrities have bad days too,” he added.
It’s not just female celebrities he’s had sour moments with. Nelson alleged he has had Kevin Spacey and Stanley Tucci “talk down to him” during interviews, too.
He’s also claimed that as Ryan Reynolds, Blake’s husband, has become more famous, he has allegedly become less down to earth. Yikes!
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