{"id":312245,"date":"2021-07-30T16:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/celebs-sound-stupid-when-talking-about-playing-normal-people\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:48:01","slug":"celebs-sound-stupid-when-talking-about-playing-normal-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/celebs-sound-stupid-when-talking-about-playing-normal-people\/","title":{"rendered":"#Celebs sound stupid when talking about playing ‘normal’ people"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Celebs sound stupid when talking about playing ‘normal’ people<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cStars \u2014 they\u2019re just like us!\u201d Us Weekly has been insisting for nearly 20 years in its popular feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the truth is, when a glittering Hollywood actor descends from Mount Olympus to mingle with us normals, it\u2019s an unbearably strenuous experience for them that they cannot shut up about.<\/p>\n

A-listers desperately need you to know that they are about as much like us as a pile of diamonds on a private beach in Fiji is.<\/p>\n

Matt Damon is the latest offender, taking on the part of a plaid-loving Oklahoma oil rig worker in the new movie \u201cStillwater,\u201d out Friday. When it premiered this month at the Cannes Film Festival, Damon discussed his preparation for the part and sounded like St. Francis of Assisi meeting Italy\u2019s poor.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing invited into their homes, into a backyard barbecue, a guitar comes out and they start singing church songs,\u201d he said at a press conference<\/a>. \u201cThey all have goatees, the sunglasses. They\u2019re not six-pack ab guys, but they\u2019re strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really eye-opening for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eye-opening? What \u2014 that the rest of us don\u2019t eat all our meals at Nobu or have full-time personal trainers to perfect our abdominals? The actor also insisted his character would\u2019ve voted for President Trump, had his time spent in prison not prevented him from going to the ballot box.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re in the oil business, of course he voted for Trump,\u201d Damon said. \u201cThese guys don\u2019t apologize for who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course! As Damon is now the Dr. Jane Goodall of Midwesterners, he would know better than the actual people.<\/p>\n

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Frances McDormand would like you to know she worked actual jobs to get ready to play Fern in \u201cNomadland.\u201d<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Searchlight Pictures\/Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another actor who\u2019s deeply in touch with the unwashed masses is Frances McDormand, who has won a mere three Oscars. Married to famed director Joel Coen, who has won a mere four Oscars, she lives in a small beach town in California that she described in a hilarious New York Times interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get to live my more authentic self here,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t have to pretend to be anybody else.\u201d McDormand, unlike this interview suggests, does not reside in a hermitage in the Chinese mountains. Her home is about an hour away from San Francisco.<\/p>\n

To prepare for her role in \u201cNomadland\u201d as Fern, a woman who tours the country in a van after falling on hard times, she oh-so-selflessly worked the regular jobs her character did.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarvesting beets I did not enjoy because it\u2019s really back-breaking work,\u201d she told USA Today.<\/a> She also clocked in at an Amazon warehouse. \u201cI love repetitive work like that. Would I want to do it all the time? No.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, Frances, the good thing is you don\u2019t have to. Unlike the real-life nomads who \u201cdidn\u2019t know\u201d you\u2019re an actor, you are a multi-millionairess.\u00a0With three Oscars.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Bacon faced the agony of going to high school for a single day before he started filming \u201cFootloose.\u201d<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Col<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A favorite day-trip<\/a>per is Kevin Bacon. Sure, in 1984 he wasn\u2019t the world\u2019s most famous man, but he had starred in \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d and the Mickey Rourke movie \u201cDiner.\u201d\u00a0Not exactly obscure off-Broadway plays.<\/p>\n

To ease into his biggest role ever, as Ren in \u201cFootloose,\u201d Bacon went to high school in Utah \u2014 for a whole day!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only people that knew that I was an actor was the principal and maybe the guidance counselor,\u201d he said at a Variety event<\/a>. \u201cThe teachers didn\u2019t know. The students didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, I am sure not a single one of these students ever saw your iconic murder scene in \u201cFriday the 13th,\u201d Kev. His bleary-eyed classmates, he claims, were even mean to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was terrifying. I got a real insight into literally how to play this part,\u201d Bacon said. \u201cIt was exactly like the movie because some kids gave me a hard time, made fun of me, made fun of my hair, made fun of my clothing. I was dressed and looked like the character. Some of the girls giggled and formed little groups and would whisper about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The horror! At least he was able leave such mundanity behind to return to life as a well-compensated, adored Hollywood star.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Glenn Close, God bless her, got ready to play Mamaw in \u201cHillbilly Elegy,\u201d for which she received her eighth Oscar nod, she didn\u2019t move into a trailer park and conceal her identity from her neighbors \u2014 she watched some videos and asked the person\u2019s family a few questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a portrait of Mamaw, we had wonderful input from the family, very specific input, and video that gave her great energy [and] essence,\u201d she told Yahoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See? Close didn\u2019t treat Kentuckians like zoo animals and then go on a self-satisfied press tour proclaiming \u201cI am different from them!\u201d\u00a0She\u2019s a Hollywood actress we can all get behind.<\/p>\n

Then again, in eight tries, she\u2019s never won an Oscar. Maybe try flipping burgers for a day, Glenn.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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