Best cosplay at SW Celebration?
With a COVID19 mask on, no one would ever know.
OK, so how it was explained to me once was that celebrities get offered all the time to have people buy them their lunch or dinner or drinks or whatever when they are seen in public venues, esp in restaurants, etc, etc.
And that they learn to refuse because once you take the free food or whatever, it creates kind of a pathway for that person to keep talking to you or try to engage you in conversation or sit down with you if you don't want that.
And apparently it's better to pay in cash. Since every thing you sign is now an autograph.
The other strange thing, I don't know if it's happened to others, but it's happen to me before, is that when you met someone for the first time, you introduce yourself to each other. However when one person is a random everyday person and the other is a celebrity, often the dynamic is the celebrity often assumes you must know who they are and what they've done in the arts/entertainment/etc.
Two stories kind of stick with me over time. One was sort of local. Mark McGwire was a big name baseball player in the 80's/90's. Well he apparently used to go to breakfast at the same place and got to know the people there, and one time gave a gift of something signed, a jersey or something, then found out later the guy who worked there put it up for auction. Caused all kinds of quiet discontent apparently.
The other is Ray Romano apparently would go to the same small place to eat with his family. Safe space and all that. And someone who worked there, stopped and tried to do a comedy routine in front of him to impress him and hope that Romano would introduce him to an agent/put him in a movie/whatever. And that it unsettled Romano pretty badly because it was his family, etc, etc.
I can see why someone like Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson go nuts. I mean imagine if you can never have a bad public day in your life and everything you do and say is scrutinized down to the last letter. All your failures are public. All your relationship failures are public. Everyone wants something from you. Your kids don't get their own identity ( Imagine being the son of LeBron James) On the other hand, you get to do and see things that most humans will never have in their entire lives.
Power is often just high speed obligation.
