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Adam Driver walks out of interview with NPR's Terry Gross because he hates hearing/seeing himself act
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And he had no need to agree to be on the show despite being warned in advance and cuddled. How about that?
It is a live interview, it's just not broadcasted live, hence why they are playing the clips during the interview to provide context and continue to the next segment. Adam has done Fresh Air before, he knows how the show is presented. They told him if he doesn't want to listen to himself to remove his headphones.
As I said before, NPR isn't at fault, and Adam Driver isn't at fault. It's just a shitty situation.
Walking off an interview doesn't hurt anybody. Fresh Air is going to be fine. This is the kind of oddball artist shit I find endearing.
It doesn't need to be sprung on him for it to have been handled better by NPR. If NPR provided accommodation by saying "take your headphones off" that might have felt initially acceptable to Driver or his team. Then Driver in the moment is having a panic attack or overwhelming anxiety about the clip being played and has to get out of the situation.
First reaction shouldn't be to go to outside press and go "wow that Driver interview was super weird, what a weird guy"
Yeesh. This kind of aggressive apathy is why I never ever ever speak honestly and openly of my psychosis. It's not possible.
respecting one's wishes that pertain to their anxiety is not coddling. learn some empathy.
You sound like a miserable person who should never work in film.
At the end of the day all Adam Driver did is leave a conversation that he no longer wanted to be in. What a monster.
I can only imagine that it being a clip where he's singing made it a billion times more uncomfortable, enough to not want to be there anymore.
They played this clip:
I can only imagine that it being a clip where he's singing made it a billion times more uncomfortable, enough to not want to be there anymore.
I don't know if it's always been this way, because there's a kind of shine on Fresh Air interviews (rightly so, the program is great and Gross is a terrific interviewer), but I've noticed that guests on the show get put in uncomfortable spots quite often. And sometimes I've noticed that the guest was sounding more and more uncomfortable and rather than backing off or taking the temperature of the interview, Gross just continues on as if her guest isn't even there. I grant that I could be way off base and it could just be my anxiety that reads things that aren't there. But I know I've made observations about the Fresh Air team being insensitive to their guests in the past and I'm not terribly surprised by what they did here or Adam Driver's reaction to it.
I feel bad for him. I know if I had to walk like that I'd be beating myself up for a few days afterward about just not being weird.
I feel bad for him. I know if I had to walk like that I'd be beating myself up for a few days afterward about just not being weird.
I was coming in to post something similar. I don't blame Adam one bit and I would've done the same.
I don't know if it's always been this way, because there's a kind of shine on Fresh Air interviews (rightly so, the program is great and Gross is a terrific interviewer), but I've noticed that guests on the show get put in uncomfortable spots quite often. And sometimes I've noticed that the guest was sounding more and more uncomfortable and rather than backing off or taking the temperature of the interview, Gross just continues on as if her guest isn't even there. I grant that I could be way off base and it could just be my anxiety that reads things that aren't there. But I know I've made observations about the Fresh Air team being insensitive to their guests in the past and I'm not terribly surprised by what they did here or Adam Driver's reaction to it.
I feel bad for him. I know if I had to walk like that I'd be beating myself up for a few days afterward about just not being weird.
I feel bad for him. I know if I had to walk like that I'd be beating myself up for a few days afterward about just not being weird.
Weird . . . they're playing it for the audience, not Driver. The audience needs a little context for whatever scene or aspect of the movie they're talking about.
I was coming in to post something similar. I don't blame Adam one bit and I would've done the same.
Driver has just the right balance between self-loathing and narcissism to be a great artist heh
I don't know if it's always been this way, because there's a kind of shine on Fresh Air interviews (rightly so, the program is great and Gross is a terrific interviewer), but I've noticed that guests on the show get put in uncomfortable spots quite often. And sometimes I've noticed that the guest was sounding more and more uncomfortable and rather than backing off or taking the temperature of the interview, Gross just continues on as if her guest isn't even there. I grant that I could be way off base and it could just be my anxiety that reads things that aren't there. But I know I've made observations about the Fresh Air team being insensitive to their guests in the past and I'm not terribly surprised by what they did here or Adam Driver's reaction to it.
I feel bad for him. I know if I had to walk out of the interview like that I'd be beating myself up for a few days afterward about just not being weird.
I feel bad for him. I know if I had to walk out of the interview like that I'd be beating myself up for a few days afterward about just not being weird.
were you there? This is definitely how it went down?
I feel like something is missing and we aren't getting the entire story here.
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I care deeply about mental illness and have a long medical history of anxiety and depression. As such, I should have considered whether this thread was worth posting and what discussion it would foster. I've requested a lock.
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