SophiaLorensWife
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- Not a movie set but I worked Guest relations/manager at the resorts at Disney and Ariana Grande was just terrible. She completely trashed the Cinderella suite. Apparently also caused damage over at Universal as well. On the other hand. Met several others. The ones that stand out are John Stamos, Chris Evans, and Prince Harry.
- John Stamos was there on his honeymoon and still made time for fans.
- Chris Evans was very polite and when someone recognized him through his sunglasses and ball cap disguise he was very cordial (his hotel room was a revolving door of women, but when you look like he does why not)
- 2nd hand, but I used to bartend in Rockefeller Center in the late 90s. NBC shot a lot of shows in the building so a lot of my lunch crews were the people who worked on sets and production. The hardest drinking, most miserable patrons were the ones from the Rosie O'Donnell Show. She tortured those poor bastards. Constant fits of rage, constant shouting, insults and throwing things. I would hear about it daily.
So to be fair to celebrities, if someone meets you or works with you only once and you happen to be having a bad day that person might think you’re an ass all the time and rumors start to spread.
This, for the most part. is not that.
In no particular order:
- My aunt (cousins aunt technically) did make up on sets the meanest most selfish person she ever met was Debra Jo Rupp, “Kitty” from that 70’s show
- Matthew McCon—nah I’m playing, he’s the nicest celeb I’ve ever met. He even took time to talk to an entire room of recovering addicts who had filled into the theater from next door, totally unaware MMC would be in there.
--- My husband was in Austin because his old band had a SXSW showcase, which meant he had an artist badge for the festival. He was waiting in a backstage area after the STP show and Matt walked up to him thinking he was security (my husband is a big dude) telling him he wanted to meet the band. Husband corrects him but they end up chatting. He told Matt the crazy story of how the band van broke so they ended up driving from Aberdeen, WA to tx in husband’s General Lee and long story short this ends up with Matt getting both him and hubs backstage to meet the band, hanging out most of the evening, AND running into each other again the next night at the Hole show, whereupon Matt not only acknowledged him again, but bought him a beer and introduced him to Woody Harrelson. He is cool af.
- Friend of mine worked on a Travis Scott music video and said the dude torpedoed his own shoot. Showed up late. Disrespected the crew. Refused to listen to the director. Brought a ton of people he insist be used in the video. All around asshole.
--- I was at Osheaga 2018 and Travis Scott showed up 45 minutes late to his own set so this checks out
--- Saw Travis back in 2015 at Sound Academy back when that existed and he was such an asshole in general, completely turned me off his music
--- I’ve worked on a decent number of hip hop projects and... this tracks.
These days it’s MOSTLY the trap stars that are bringing high level diva attitudes to set. That is if they show up at all (lookin at you Thugger). And if they DO show up it’ll be at least 4hrs late and already blazed out of their mind. Every time.
It’s gotten bad enough that myself and the rest of the crew I know actively have to ask if the project is hip hop related before taking the gig. I almost always turn them down now unless it’s for someone I have worked with before and I know they be cool
- Opposite story. I met Colin Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks, while filming Orange County. You would expect him to be pretty arrogant and entitled, considering he grew up in Hollywood and his dad was TOM FREAKING HANKS.
Me and my friends had gotten on set since we were in a film club and ran into him while there. He was sooooo nice. He joked around, answered a lot of questions, and was really genuine. He laughed when we asked him how it felt being Tom Hank's son and said it got old being asked that all the time, but he always took it in stride. He is definitely like his father and just an all around nice guy
- Friend of mine works in the biz. She and several of her coworkers have said multiple things about the entitled behavior of Benedict Cumberbatch. Talks down to people, acts superior to everyone around him, and they won’t give him a female personal assistant cuz he always tries to “break them.”
--- Heard from someone that Robert Downey Jr berated him for his behavior on the set of Avengers.
Also apparently he had what was assumed to be a bender in his hotel a night before shooting and they had to send a doctor to his room. Don’t know what exactly happened but was disappointing to hear.
- It’s an open secret as detailed through coded language (due to having signed NDAs) by comedy writers that Ellen is a terrible person to work for. Her handling of payment to her crew when covid hit came as no surprise to anyone who has heard these stories over the years.
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson is every bit as arrogant and self important as he seems on TV. He was nice enough to talk to everyone at least once, we paid to see him, but he really doesn't want to talk to you if you're not actively in science or a kid who maybe wants to do science. There was just something rude about him.
And when you consider how much he hangs with Bill Nye and how much Bill Nye gets massacred in threads like these for being a raging asshole to people who bump into him on the street...
- John Stamos was there on his honeymoon and still made time for fans.
- Chris Evans was very polite and when someone recognized him through his sunglasses and ball cap disguise he was very cordial (his hotel room was a revolving door of women, but when you look like he does why not)
- 2nd hand, but I used to bartend in Rockefeller Center in the late 90s. NBC shot a lot of shows in the building so a lot of my lunch crews were the people who worked on sets and production. The hardest drinking, most miserable patrons were the ones from the Rosie O'Donnell Show. She tortured those poor bastards. Constant fits of rage, constant shouting, insults and throwing things. I would hear about it daily.
So to be fair to celebrities, if someone meets you or works with you only once and you happen to be having a bad day that person might think you’re an ass all the time and rumors start to spread.
This, for the most part. is not that.
In no particular order:
- Steve Harvey - Complete self entitled ass. Disrespectful of everyone on set and acted like a petulant child the entire time. He didn’t want to have his photo taken (at a photo shoot set up specifically for him) so what should have been 30 minutes turned into 2-3 hours.
- Bobby Brown - Kind of a dick. Thinks he’s still as big of a deal as he was in the 80’s / 90’s. He was really pleasant to the producers but dismissive at best to the crew.
- Young Thug - All of the stories you’ve heard are true. He’s so strung out on lean most of the time that he can’t be bothered to actually leave his hotel room to show up at the shoot. When he does show up, it’ll be a miracle if you get him to look at the camera.
- Migos - I didn’t interact with them directly but they were 4 hours late for their own concert, which was being recorded for advertising purposes (but there was a venue full of audience members who had paid for tickets). I was supposed to be in bed by 11pm, but because of their fuckery I didn’t get home until 5am.
- 2 Chains - 2hrs late and then refused to walk on set until he could burn three joints. Once he did finally walk on he all fun & games for 10 minutes until he saw something on a monitor he didn’t like and started acting all hard and screaming about it.
- Mike Will - Showed up 3hrs late for what was supposed to be a 60 minute photo shoot - didn’t acknowledge the photographer or the crew for the first 45 minutes and instead dicked around on his phone and walked around the location. We finally managed to get usable stuff, but only after his full crew arrived and the owner of the location gave them a green light to hotbox the bathroom.
- T.I. - Professional as hell. On time. Focused. Ready to work. But also sort of gives off a gangster/Scarface vibe. Very respectful to everyone but also his vibe puts everyone on edge a bit.
- Killer Mike - 100% Real. Professional and has no time to waste. What you see with him on TV or whatever doing interviews is pretty much him all the time.
- Sarah Blakely - Shes a literal nut case.
- Lil Yachty - Eh. He was alright. Did a couple of shoots with him early on. He rolled up 30 minutes late and his dad (his manager at the time) yelled at him, which was amusing.
- Shaq - worked with him half a dozen times. He’s basically a giant 15 year old. Mostly pleasant but has a really short attention span and insists on having a hookah ready for him at all times so he can suck on it while the scene is getting lit.
- The Rock - Incredibly aware that he’s a big deal. Very serious and professional but totally pleasant and respectful to everyone. (Also he’s not as big as I expected). In between scenes he can be spotted doing curls and inhaling chicken, broccoli & rice. (Seriously this dude doesn’t stop).
- Mike Epps - Consummate professional and hilarious. 10/10
- Sean Astin - Major nerd (in the best way possible). Incredibly friendly and personable to everyone on set. I wish I hadn’t been so busy because I really would have loved to chat with him.
- Zoe Saldana - Super friendly and fun to work with. Made a point to thank every person on thecrew for their work before she left.
- Natalie Dormer - The only time I’ve been legitimately star struck. She’s effortlessly beautiful, charming and was lovely to everyone on the crew.
- T-Pain - Like pretty much every other rapper, he was a couple of hours late... but made up for it by being fµck!ng hilarious and pleasant to work with. We had a lot of ruined takes because he likes to ad lib and see if he can get the crew busting up. (He can. We did).
- 50 Cent - Total asshole. Super entitled and disrespectful to the entire crew. Needed a stunt double to catch a football for him.
- Andy Serkis & Martin Freeman - worked with them at the same time. Complete gentlemen even at 3am they were beyond professional.
- Emily Blunt - She was delightful.
- Jason Bateman - Very approachable and pleasant. Very easy to work with.
- Barry Bostwick - Really approachable and easy to work with. Dude has been around forever and knows how to get it done.
- Dale Earnhardt Jr - Polite and professional. Not professional “talent” and seems like he doesn’t care to be on camera but knows he needs to in order to keep the machine running - so we just get him in & out as fast as we can. No complaints.
- Keith David - Very professional. Seemed like a nice guy but I never got a lot of time with him because he would he got pulled off set into something else the moment we had the minimum we needed.
- Rhetta - Genuinely hilarious and good to work with the couple of times I was on set with her.
- My aunt (cousins aunt technically) did make up on sets the meanest most selfish person she ever met was Debra Jo Rupp, “Kitty” from that 70’s show
- Matthew McCon—nah I’m playing, he’s the nicest celeb I’ve ever met. He even took time to talk to an entire room of recovering addicts who had filled into the theater from next door, totally unaware MMC would be in there.
--- My husband was in Austin because his old band had a SXSW showcase, which meant he had an artist badge for the festival. He was waiting in a backstage area after the STP show and Matt walked up to him thinking he was security (my husband is a big dude) telling him he wanted to meet the band. Husband corrects him but they end up chatting. He told Matt the crazy story of how the band van broke so they ended up driving from Aberdeen, WA to tx in husband’s General Lee and long story short this ends up with Matt getting both him and hubs backstage to meet the band, hanging out most of the evening, AND running into each other again the next night at the Hole show, whereupon Matt not only acknowledged him again, but bought him a beer and introduced him to Woody Harrelson. He is cool af.
- Friend of mine worked on a Travis Scott music video and said the dude torpedoed his own shoot. Showed up late. Disrespected the crew. Refused to listen to the director. Brought a ton of people he insist be used in the video. All around asshole.
--- I was at Osheaga 2018 and Travis Scott showed up 45 minutes late to his own set so this checks out
--- Saw Travis back in 2015 at Sound Academy back when that existed and he was such an asshole in general, completely turned me off his music
--- I’ve worked on a decent number of hip hop projects and... this tracks.
These days it’s MOSTLY the trap stars that are bringing high level diva attitudes to set. That is if they show up at all (lookin at you Thugger). And if they DO show up it’ll be at least 4hrs late and already blazed out of their mind. Every time.
It’s gotten bad enough that myself and the rest of the crew I know actively have to ask if the project is hip hop related before taking the gig. I almost always turn them down now unless it’s for someone I have worked with before and I know they be cool
- Opposite story. I met Colin Hanks, the son of Tom Hanks, while filming Orange County. You would expect him to be pretty arrogant and entitled, considering he grew up in Hollywood and his dad was TOM FREAKING HANKS.
Me and my friends had gotten on set since we were in a film club and ran into him while there. He was sooooo nice. He joked around, answered a lot of questions, and was really genuine. He laughed when we asked him how it felt being Tom Hank's son and said it got old being asked that all the time, but he always took it in stride. He is definitely like his father and just an all around nice guy
- Friend of mine works in the biz. She and several of her coworkers have said multiple things about the entitled behavior of Benedict Cumberbatch. Talks down to people, acts superior to everyone around him, and they won’t give him a female personal assistant cuz he always tries to “break them.”
--- Heard from someone that Robert Downey Jr berated him for his behavior on the set of Avengers.
Also apparently he had what was assumed to be a bender in his hotel a night before shooting and they had to send a doctor to his room. Don’t know what exactly happened but was disappointing to hear.
- It’s an open secret as detailed through coded language (due to having signed NDAs) by comedy writers that Ellen is a terrible person to work for. Her handling of payment to her crew when covid hit came as no surprise to anyone who has heard these stories over the years.
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson is every bit as arrogant and self important as he seems on TV. He was nice enough to talk to everyone at least once, we paid to see him, but he really doesn't want to talk to you if you're not actively in science or a kid who maybe wants to do science. There was just something rude about him.
And when you consider how much he hangs with Bill Nye and how much Bill Nye gets massacred in threads like these for being a raging asshole to people who bump into him on the street...