By now you probably know that I think Cara Delevingne is pretty overrated. I think most of her fame and success comes from nepotism and connections (her parents are rich, well-connected aristocrats), plus a healthy dose of social media savvy and being the public trainwreck that people love to watch. I also believe that Cara should have gotten a bigger backlash last year when she completely mishandled being (justly) called out by Vogue for being an unprofessional mess who slept through the interview because she was partying too hard the night before.
So, that’s my general impression of her: poor little rich girl with a martyr complex. Party girl who only talks about solidarity and women-supporting-women when she’s being called out for unprofessional behavior. But here’s something new: is Cara also sort of a brat? That’s my question after watching what could have been a simple, breezy morning show appearance turn into an awkward disaster. To be fair, it wasn’t just Cara – or “Carla” as they called her – turning this interview into messy morning show amazingness. But Cara seemed… off. Here’s the clip from Good Day Sacramento:
Full disclosure: I’m actually a morning person, in that I can be fully functional, coherent and truly awake very quickly after I get up. But I could never be “perky” like morning show anchors. Not without heavy medication or a buttload of caffeine. So, just on that alone, I think there was always going to be some awkwardness between peppy, perky Californian morning anchors and a jet-lagged, hard-partying, hungover British girl. Maybe it was being called “Carla” or maybe she was just tired of doing press, but it did feel like Cara had a chip on her shoulder. It felt like she stifled (just barely) several eyerolls as she deigned to answer their questions. So… unprofessional brat or completely reasonable given the circumstances?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She is giving major Melissa Joan Hart vibes here.
The Sabrina girl? I thought she was nice?
Melissa Joan Hart is humble and gracious, not bratty and spoiled like Delevigne.
I believe she means that “Carla” (lol) is looking like Melissa Joan Hart here and I totally agree!! Good call!
Melissa is not nice, I remember a while ago, her husband called someone gay as an insult and she defended him and ever since then , I can’t stand her melting face.
I bet if they had called her Clarissa instead of Carla, this would have gone much better.
Melissa as Clarissa in the top photo with the tie dye shirt on, definitely!! Clarissa was always fashion forward!
Mel has been a friend of mine since her Clarissa days, and she got to keep all of the wardrobe from Clarissa. So much fun, so many Doc Martens!!
She gives me (especially with the straight hair – too bad it isn’t black) vibes of Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams in the Addams family.
Swack….I couldn’t put my finger on it, but that’s it – Christina Ricci! Good call.
I wish everyone would stop using Adobe Flash. It has been proven to be risky, time and time again, and never fully secure.
@kiddo what to use instead?
You cant see anything but a bunch of code either?
It’s a bit of a non-sequitur, but can I add Microsoft Silverlight to that? It’s the bane of my life.
https://news.yahoo.com/what-is-adobe-flash–and-how-can-you-get-rid-of-it-181631289.html
And you have to constantly keep updating it. Bane of my existence. But what do I use instead?
I think it’s really up to websites to change the application. And yes, there is always an update, but in the meantime, you are left dangling with the threat, KWIM? I updated the last time, but have now disabled it anyway.
Spoiled brat who’s time has come
I sincerely hope not! I think she’s great! She is a zillion times more interesting, both personality & looks, than your average model. In fact, love her or hate her she is one of the very few models in the current crop, who many people recognise. At least she invokes a reaction, be it positive or negative. She reminds me of Kate Moss during the early years of her career. She doesn’t give a flying f**k about what people think & that is so great in a world where every person in the public sphere is expected to conform to the bland, boring prototype personified by the likes of Taylor Swift zzzzzzzzzzzzzz yawn. I can totally understand why designers like Lagerfeld dote on her. She must be as refreshing as a shot of quadruple espresso. So much more interesting to be a sacred monster without a filter, than a bore
You do know you can be “a zillion times more interesting,” without being rude and obnoxious right?
You know you can make your point without being condescending, right?
Agree. The general public / blog readers would be surprised at how many models – actress/ singers( hi taylor) careers are bought for them. Without a doubt they are purty, but the money spent in marketing them is way more than they are paid. Rich parents pay for ad campaigns. Of course! If you were the ceo of a cosmetic brand and the sponsors of an attractive and popular girl were willing to pay you for her success, how could you lose?
I think the news people were somewhat condescending. So many news people can’t seem to be bothered with researching anything and getting their facts straight. To not even get her name right was beyond stupid. It was early and she was clearing a bit out of it and they being jerks.
I’d be more inclined to think that Americans don’t get the British sense of humour and vice versa.
Not at all. Most Americans like sarcasm and a dry sense of humor, but she fell flat. This isn’t a trip to your friends house. You’re being paid to talk excitedly about this film you made and there’s no reason to act that you’re hungover, even if you are. The anchors were rude, sure, but it’s called being professional. Cuss them out when you’re alone with your team! You haven’t made it get, Cara, at least not in the U.S.
Agreed. This is reeking of the KStew shenanigans circa 2010ish, flipping ppl off on the red carpet ..and we see how that worked out for her career. This is her first film and people are watching her and paying attn. A bad attitude does not bode well. Any little up and coming actress with “quirk” will replace her in a heartbeat. She just comes off as bored and ungrateful. Play the JLaw card and pretend to be goofy and charming with your answers. Fake it til you make it.
I read an interesting piece (cant remember where, sorry!) about the difference in understanding sarcasm between the UK and US. Because the US had such an influx of people coming from many different language backgrounds pretty much all at once, their use of English had to be simpler and more direct so that everyone could understand. Which makes total sense when you think about it. Its not that Americans dont understand sarcasm, its just that its used differently and not so often as with Brits. I’m British/French, so I’ve had an education by watching the two sides of my family try and communicate with each other. My partner is Hungarian/Georgian and has the darkest sense of humour. I find it hilarious, but many Brits just dont get it and think he might be a serial killer. Its all about perspective, I suppose.
As for Cara, I think the questions she was being asked were not very nice and I can see why she was so p!ssy. She could have been a bit better about it but I’m pretty sure some middle American morning TV show isnt going to stop her career in its tracks. Its more publicity via this route than a normal interview anyway, so maybe she was actually quite clever.
I feel for you Hungarian/Georgian partner. In my country, we use quite dark, dry humour, even gallows humour about the war, and most tourists think we’re crazy.
Completely agree with this. This crew were terrible and came off as insulting. I don’t care either way for this girl, but I’m gonna have to side with her. I’d be pissed off if right off the bat they had my name wrong. Especially in the morning.
“but I’m pretty sure some middle American morning TV show isnt going to stop her career in its tracks”
Good Day Sacramento is from Sacramento, California. Sacramento believe it or not is the Capital of the huge state of California. Don’t worry our European friends, most Americans themselves have never heard of Sacramento and think San Francisco or L.A. is the state capital. LOL.
I’m 100% sure Cara is not the only Brit they have ever interviewed and yes Americans are aware of dry British humour and watch British shows. Cara seemed to be using it in the beginning which I got (as did the Black anchor who came to her defense) but I think her insecurities took hold and she began to take offense at their questions (so it’s more Cara not understanding American media). Examples below:
-When you are the star in a beloved book-to-movie adaptation the FANS always want to know if you read the original book. They want to know that you love it as much as they do. Some actors say they only read the script and not the original book because the movie is not the book. All the Twilight, GOT, teen fiction actors are asked this question. Cara on the other hand seemed to interpret it as them thinking she’s a dumb model who can’t read.
-Everyone doing multi things like music-acting-modeling gets asked if it has been exhausting or whether they are workaholics who are better when they are busy.
-Cara’s massive eye rolls and defensiveness towards regular questions made the anchors uncomfortable and fr their point of view she looks rude and ungrateful to be given the opportunity to promote her movie (maybe she should have asked a studio to give her a list of usual questions asked by American media which MOST actors get).
Finally, in the age of the Internet, you can’t get away with stuff like this even if Sacramento was in small town USA population of 12. It goes viral and the bigger media will pick it up and she WILL be asked about it in New York.
I’m American but grew up watching British comedy and other British TV shows and it’s true. The levels of sarcasm, complexity of language and when and where to use humor are different. To put it bluntly, American sarcasm comes off as less intelligent because it’s not as deep and the wording is generally simple. I might be pissing some people off, but that’s ok. There’s a reason for the “dumb American” stereotype and some of it comes from our preference for simple words and obvious meanings.
I don’t care about Cara one way or the other, but I would get pissed off too if people who SHOULD know my name got it wrong first thing in the morning.
Wren, I can haz funny?
Dur….what? Ooof! *falls over* omg!
‘Murican!
The Original TC: Tsaaaawww… Why couldn’t I have been an actress – I’d have loved to answer such questions!
Also, I once won a $500 gift voucher in a trivia contest because I was the only one on our table of 10 who knew that Sacramento is California’s capital. And the blokes bragged about their prowess in geography…pfft.
@TEAANDSYMPATHY
Good for you! Internet high five.😀
I think that’s a great explanation. I moved to the states as a teenager and I often found myself looking at an entire theater-full of people laughing at a joke that I just didn’t get. American humor is distinct (as demonstrated by the popularity of comedy that to me isn’t even comedic: Judd Apatow movies and Adam Sandler’s career come to mind) and I wish instead of being defensive about it, more people would take an interest in why. I prefer British comedy because that’s what I grew up around and that shaped my sense of humor. Why are some people so reluctant to acknowledge that there is a difference? Would Adam Sandler have had a career anywhere else but the United States? (Answer: no).
GreenieWeenie, In the US, NO ONE understands how Adam Sandler has a career.
Maybe a couple of 12 year old boys.
I’m British, and sarcasm is in our blood, yes, but her attititude went waaay beyond sarcasm into downright condescending. In other words, rude, entitled little brat.
(Btw, think I’ve replied to wrong person, sorry!)
Ah, here we go. The ol’ “stereotype 300+ million Americans” schtick. Puh-lease.
Yup, we Amuricans should bow to British humor, for we are so simple and uncouth. Every single one of us,300 million plus, are directly cut from the same cloth and thus can’t even begin to understand any sophisticated thought or reason.
300+ million Americans aren’t making movies. HOLLYWOOD is making movies, and studio choices are generally representative of American tastes since studios don’t make movies for which there is no domestic market.
Never, ever did I think I would be an apologist for this twit…but those news anchors were completely rude and unprofessional.
Yes, totally agree! As a news anchor and supposed ‘journalist’ getting your interviewee’s name wrong is indefensible.
Coming here to say exactly this. It’s your job to research and do the interview, of which introducing your subject is a part of. Get it right – otherwise it’s just rude and lazy.
I watched it and they were in the wrong. They were condescending and rude! They called her by the wrong name, basically tried to imply that she was too busy or stupid to read the book, and it only got worse. Cara became defensive in reaction to them. Not her fault this time!
I could not agree more. I think She probably got irritated the moment they called her the wrong name, and rightfully so! I couldn’t believe it as the female one asked if she even had time to read, because to me it was very much like she was implying Cara wouldn’t take the time to read. Then the other anchor asking if she found it easier to focus with back to back projects…definitely code for do you need to keep busy on work so you don’t party so much?
And where the heck did the third dude come from?!? Did they mic him and shove him on specifically to call Cara out on not seeming excited? How even says that? Even if she didn’t seem excited, who calls their subject
Out on that?
What complete asshats. The female interviewer took it too far when she said grab a red bull and a nap.
This was a clear misuse of power and platform from the hosts. They treated her less than, and it’s shameful to watch that kind of ganging up from professionals.
I don’t even give a rats ass about Cara, I think she is spoiled, but I do think she appreciates her movie career, I think she enjoys giving interviews for this film because she’s proud of it.
She looked like she was slapped with the last couple of comments. I truly felt so sorry for her.
@Sunsetsnow
Those were standard questions. Even Brady Kristen Stewart got asked if she read Twilight the book before filming and she answered without being a brat. Kit Harrington gets asked a million times (even now) whether he read the GOT books. He continues to answer the question still in a very thoughtful and serious manner out of respect for fans of the book. The movie Cara is in I think it’s based on a popular teen fiction and those teen girls can be even more brutal on asking “did you read the book and get it like we did?).
Busy schedule question-standard again asked of all busy celebrities.
Cara just took the questions as uniquely directed at her and meant to insult. I do agree that it was unprofessional to have gotten her name wrong when it’s written all over the place. Maybe yes that turned her off completely. Still as a professional you remind them politely forcing them to look bad and you move on.
Totally agree. Cara was moody but these anchors (maybe excluding the black guy) were far worse. The lady was completely unprofessional for not even bothering to learn her guest’s name, condescending and completely fake. She seems like the kind of person who would stab you in the back with a huge smile on her face. I’d suspect anything she says as a hidden insult.
I don’t think so. The tone and direction of the questions would have made me act in the exact same way. Instead of being professional and trying to change the interview around, they tried to make it so that she was in the wrong. Then they proceeded to talk about her when the camera cut off, not enabling her to defend herself.
I agree. I think they asked stupid questions, made assumptions, and were totally irritating. She handled it pretty well considering they started it off by calling her the wrong name then it went down the sh!tter from there.
JUSTIFIED.
These news “anchors” (is that what they are?!) were beyond rude, unprofessional and discourteous. Their continued “jokes” about it for almost a full minute after Cara was off air was just so low class. It may indeed be a standard question to ask if an actor has read a book for a book -to-screen adaptation, but there is a way to ask a standard question without outright insulting someone!
Not to even mention calling her by the wrong name! Disgustingly lazy!
I would have a hard time not walking off.
YESSSS. I totally agree. Some of these morning anchors in the local markets are sooooo stupidly giddy, ignorant, and annoying.
I realize that a morning host can’t exactly be sour and morose, but many morning anchors are the equivalent of someone regurgitating Sunny Delight all over a set. I honestly could see myself responding the same way as Cara did.
They are not reporters and obviously don’t know how to ask questions. They were shading her from the start. It was as if they were insulted they had to interview her.
I also thought that they we’re jerks. Especially the women.
Yeah, I don’t care about Cara at all, but she was just responding with humor, which is better than a canned reply. Anchors were very rude.
My thoughts exactly. She caught a massive wave of dumb and still managed to gamely stay on her board with some amount of resigned humor intact.
Agree. They were terrible.
I agree. I watched and thought she did the best she could. The anchors seemed to come in with an agenda – especially the female anchor. It seemed like they were trying to get her to answer in a particular way. If it was me I would have had a harder time suppressing the eyerolls.
I feel they were personally insulted somehow that she was not like they had seen in some other video they mentioned. Maybe Cara could have been more professional and faked being in a good mood but since they were not professional and I do not know why she should have tried extra hard. There was nothing wrong with what she said, I feel she was trying to provide levity, her facial expressions just looked a bit irratated. So I was suprised some think she was rude.
I agree. I mean she was pissed and kind of rude, but I would have walked off in her place because the anchors were really unprofessional. They tried to be funny at her expense, when it just seemed they trew subtle insults. Not cool.
And of course she’s a spoiled brat, everybody’s knows that, but I think expect the Vogue interview she was behaving nice.
AGWEE. theyre clowns & that show is poke-me-with-needles spastic and utter sap. I live in Sac and rarely watch them, as im already at work, BUTT – that anchorwoman doesn’t have a mean bone in her body and I don’t know what was up her hiney!??? goodness! They were complete dix to Cara – give me a break. Plus – it seemed to me like there was also an OBVIOUS tape delay which only added to the stilted nature of it all.
Thank you. This is their job – to make their GUESTS welcome. So, so unprofessional.
I think peoples dislike of Cara shows through in this situation. I will say I generally dislike her but really don’t care and even from that perspective I completely see how disgusting the anchors were.
Agreed.
She is so supportive of the younger Kardashians; I dislike her for this. I agreed with the Sacramento newsmen who pointed out that she makes millions for several weeks of work, and for that she could show a little professional courtesy. Remember the photos of her dropping a bindle of white powder at her doorstep a year or so ago? Why did that get swept under the carpet?
She’s supportive, because she was/is like them at one point.
They aren’t paying her salary.
I actually think she’s pretty justified here. They started out by messing up her name (unprofessional), then asked her if she had even read the book in a way that could have come off as pretty condescending. I can see why she would have been slightly offended by that. And I can’t help but love the way she answered:
“No I actually never read the book or the script, I just kind of winged it.”
To me, that just comes off like dry, British humor that perky Californians might take as asshole-i-ness. But IMO she was being justifiably sarcastic and I thought it was pretty hilarious.
agree. These three behaved like complete and utter assholes.
they were SUCH dix.
She’s definitely going for British bitchy-funny. And the interviewers just looked fake and wanky (but to me, all these puff interviewers come off as fake and wanky, which is why avoid them like the plague). Sadly for her, though, she’s got absolutely NO comic timing and so the whole thing, for me, came off as an arsehole-fest. Any British actor or comedian with any talent whatsoever could have given exactly the same responses and they would have been FUNNY.
Let’s hope her connections don’t get her any comedy roles!
And I suppose at least she didn’t walk out, like RDJ did on KGM!
Oh I hear ya, Sixer. Her talent, or lack thereof, is a whole other issue. Her delivery was definitely off, but I don’t think she was wrong in trying to make a few sarcastic jokes while being treated like an idiot by idiots. Just imagine if this had been Robert Downy Junior. They’d have called him “Rodger,” and it would have been over right then and there. He’d have thrown his chair at the camera and stormed off before they even had the chance to ask him if he’d seen the first Iron Man before making the second one.
(ETA: it looks like you added the very same opinion in your ETA, but I didn’t see it until now so I hereby acknowledge it in my ETA)
PS: as the in-house expert on British bitchy-funny, I appreciate your confirmation that that was indeed what Carla was going for 😉
Well, my comic timing sucks too!
I really dislike this girl (although I concede there’s an amount of inverted snobbery in that dislike) but for me, this was certainly a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Sixer: that’s how I understood it too. Hugh Grant gives the same type of responses all the time, but he has comedic timing and charm so people don’t necessarily pick up on the bitchy-funny sarcasm.
With regards this interview, those questions deserved the answers she gave.
I also think she was stuck in a dark room with a camera and an ear piece. Whilst the anchors are going like energiser bunnies, they aren’t factoring in the fact that she’s not receiving their questions simultaneously. There is an audio delay and you can see she’s concentrating on hearing the questions and due to the delay she seems to be taking her time answering them. As she’s in a room with only a camera and no visual interaction, she’s allowing her natural reactions to come through instead of controlling her body language as she would had she been sitting in front of these people.
Same here. I’m not a fan of hers but they get her name wrong and basically treat her like a toddler the entire interview being condescending jerks. It doesn’t sound like the interviewers did even the most basic research on her or the book/movie. If she had acted like this and the interviewers/anchors were professional then I would call her out, but not for this. They got the interview they deserved.
She came off as bored and bratty, not even trying to hide it. Maybe she’s not a morning person but if that’s the case her team should know better than to schedule early interviews. She could’ve sucked it up and faked excitement for two minutes, she’s an actress for crying out loud.
well, no one said she’s a good actress. that said, the dopes interviewing her should know her name.
I didn’t notice they got her name wrong, that’s pretty crappy!
I dont like her, i still remember her at the victoria’s secret fashion show from two years ago being a total mess, and way overrated, but i dont think she was rude here? they asked her pretty much basic “yes or no” questions and she tried to be funny and snarky imo. Like, “did you read the book before doing the movie?” like, what are they expecting her to say anyway? I thought the way she answered was funny, and was way better than how, for example, amy schumer handled the “sexist” journo that asked her if she thinks her character is a trainwreck as the title suggests and she went on and made fun of his dead mother (if that was a joke i didnt get it)
Not to mention the anchors are the ones that when she was off the air that made actual snarky comments about her and she didnt have the chance to reply.
The Australian journo with Amy Schumer didn’t ask her if she thought her character was a trainwreck, he implied that her character was “skanky.” I do agree though that Amy handled the situation poorly.
i watched that days ago so i dont remember exactly what they were saying, was still more awkward than this
he didn’t imply the character is skanky, he basically asked if they use the word “skanky” in America, after they had already talked about how the movie is to some degree autobiographical.. so the skanky comment felt pretty personal. I think Amy handled it fine, the guy was a total moron.
@zzzz I think Amy had a right to be angry, the guy was being a jerk, but she just responded to sexism with more sexism. He called her skanky so she called his mom skanky. It reminded me of seventh-grade humor when boys would just respond to everything with mom jokes.
Hang on, it was a little awkward, but the anchors completely blew it out of proportion. They would never do that if it was Gwyneth Paltrow or Julia Roberts.
I’m on Cara’s side here, and if they can’t be bothered to even learn her name then who are they to comment on professionalism? Morons!
completely reasonable given the circumstances?
what circumstance?
that she had to be awake in the AM and promote the film she’s is in after whining about quitting modeling to want to be an actor?
and she thinks shes just smarter and better than these anchors?
poor little rich girl.
get a life.
I think you’re being unduly harsh. Everyone has their own problems, and acting is what she wants her career to be. How would you like it in you’re in a business meeting and some other people condescend you and get your name wrong? You’d be justifiably annoyed.
As for the ‘poor little rich girl’ mock, I dislike that mainly because you don’t know her life. Everyone has struggles.
The anchors were awful. They didn’t even know her name, their ‘questions’ were wrapped up in nonsense ramblings and they started mocking her and being condescending towards her early on. Then they end the whole thing by bitching about her the second the feed cuts out. Way to be professional guys.
Cara seemed fine to me. The questions were stupid and rude and she didn’t pretend they weren’t, but she was still polite and funny throughout. She handled questions designed to make her look bad as well as she could. No she didn’t look delighted about the whole thing, but a lot of actors would have just gotten up and walked away after about a minute of that.
The anchors were startlingly rude. I don’t see how this is on Cara at all.
agree – theyre all being dix.
That’s what I was thinking too. They’re making bad jokes at her expense, then they complain about her seeming irritated… WTF?
I can’t stand Cara but those anchors were assholes. She wasn’t perky but she was being pleasant enough. The anchors were incredibly unprofessional.
Exactly. The anchors were more annoying than her.
The interviewers are being dicks.
She was condescending and rude from the get-go. Doesn’t show a lot of class or intelligence. Ugh!
Cara is no Shailene Woodley. Paper Towns is a flop (partly because they misjudged her influence and popularity in the US)
I really liked Paper Towns and thought it was sweet, harkening back to the old teen movies like Sixteen Candles, but with a modern twist and bit less cliche. I thought it had some good messages and I thought she had a lot of charisma on screen. I like her.
As I am also not a morning person, have an unusual name that people get wrong all the time, and have a dry, sarcastic sense of humour, watching that interview actually made me like Cara a little more!
I agree. She seems like a real person and not an overly programmed, perky star giving canned answers.
Same here, on all three points. I like her more too now. I laughed when she said she hadn’t read the script and just winged it.
@juilet I properly LOLed at that bit.
Everybody came off as @ssh0les here. Team nobody.
Aren’t the anchors more seasoned and more professional, they need to adapt to their interviewee. What jerks, demanding her be grateful for their time? How about ask more interesting questions or perhaps getting her name right? Being asked over and over again why she seems mad isn’t the way to turn an interview around, they should have at that point asked her to speak about what she learned on set or found most fascinating or something to get her excited. Assholes.
I completely agree! I felt the anchors were completely unprofessional …I mean, get her name right! That would be super irritating to me! They asked ridiculous questions and just seemed to be looking for something to tear her down about. I thought they were assholes too. Stupid and irritating questions…and yeah, people act exactly the same every single day in every encounter. No they don’t and it doesn’t mean she’s not excited about the movie if she’s not as animated. Maybe she didn’t sleep well. Maybe it’s a lot earlier in the day. There could be a zillion reasons and they just seemed to look for kind of mean spirited things to say in a perky way…like I’m not insulting you but really I am. I wouldn’t be surprised if they called her Carla on purpose to see how she’d react. They seem like it would be something they do and laugh about it afterwards, especially the woman. If she thought that was a MOOD, she doesn’t get out enough! They’ll be lucky to ever get another big name interview after that fiasco. Very unprofessional.
Not a big Cara fan, but getting her name wrong twice before the interview even began was probably a bad start. She was visibly irritated by it and clearly didn’t understand that these air headed interviews are part of the PR pole dance she signed up for.
They seemed pretty rude, but she didn’t handle it the best that I’ve seen. She seemed to throw the insults back at them instead of promoting a positive image of herself.
I think the anchors were very condescending and were talking down to her like one might talk to an insufferable teen. Which would irritate an insufferable teen and thusly the teen would act just as she did. Not to mention they got her name wrong and asked some dumb ass questions.
Good Day Sacramento?! Good God what happened? Good day Northeast Philly must have been busy interviewing Benedict Cumberbatch
I think she was irritated at the beginnig when they said her name wrong. I mean, how hard is it to get her name right? But I think the rest of it was just her sense of humour. She clearly has a dry and sarcastic sense of humour. Plus those anchors were irritating to ME…some of those questions were ridiculous like the downtown vs one thing after another focus question. And like she said, it was the morning and maybe she just didn’t have as much energy, but to call her out and say because she wasn’t as animated as she was in some other interview was rude on their part. I honestly did not see her doing anything wrong. She acted the way I probably would have if I’d been her. I think THEY were rude and looking for something to be negative about …those comments about her being in a MOOD and she makes millions and how hard is it to talk to them just seemed spiteful and mean-spirited to me.
Plus 1000! I am not a big fan – but seriously 3 anchors and they can’t get name right!?? It was morning, she is young, she probably had a massive bender the night before – and she used typical Brit understated humour in response to stupid questions (I am from New Zealand but have lived in London for 15 years – wouldn’t raise an (admirably sculpted in her case!) eyebrow here). It was rude and reeked of “anchors” trying to get a story. Bet if it was Bieber or Timberlake they would have been creaming themselves. It’s a teen movie, what did they expect, Full Serious Oscar Meryl??
I saw her being interviewed on the local Atlanta station. She wasn’t rude, but barely coherent and appeared bored by the whole process. When asked what drew her to the character she played, Cara could barely eke out an answer other than she was an amazing/beautiful person or something like that. Her pathetic response to such an obvious question prompted me to think it was simply the $$$ being dangled by the film company that drew her to the character. Our anchor did get her name right, though.
Team Carla! 🙂
I’ve never bought her whole “rich girl with a heart of gold who is actually down to earth” act that she tries to pull. She’s just like all of the rich assholes she grew up with; wearing tomboy clothes and making silly faces in pictures doesn’t change that.
I agree. A real actress of model would’ve never done that, not even if they had gotten her name wrong. But she’s rich and entitled, she didn’t have to work to earn what she has, and it was clear with her reaction to this interview.
I’ve been surprised by how bad she is at press — her interviews haven’t been nearly as entertaining as her social media accounts.
She was fine, she has a British sense of humour which more literal Americans often misinterpret, she seemed maybe slightly tired which any professional interviewer would have ignored. The interviewers were beyond rude to her. Why on earth would anybody be super happy, peppy, over excited first thing in the morning particularly after a long night post premiere? She’s a human, not an overly exuberant puppy.
I think she was fine – they were obnoxious, fake, and asked stupid questions. She didn’t adopt their hyper, peppy, fake tone.
Maybe the anchor who got her name wrong just stumbled over her words? No one seems to be considering that. I know they have a fairly simple job to do, but nonetheless, sometimes people just make honest mistakes. I know I’ve called people by the wrong name, even when I know them well. Cara could have just been professional, sucked it up, and given a decent interview. I mean, five minutes out of her (very privileged) life?
I don’t like her very much, but i feel like it was more of a question of misunderstanding than anything else. i didn’t think she was being snappy, she was making awkward jokes, they didn’t get it and it snowballed from there. she actually seemed a little hurt at the end, and didn’t know how to respond.
she’ overrated though, ita.
The female anchor was a beyotch for no reason and sooooo unprofessional. Cara seems less perky than the typical american adolescent and has a dry humor which I appreciate. The quip about the red bull was also unnecessary.
agree
I can’t stand her, but I laughed when she said she “winged it” and the newspeople weren’t very professional.
I thought that the anchors–particularly the woman–were inexcusably rude to her. Their dismissive attitude and dumb questions would make anyone roll their eyes. The end of the clip is absolutely disgraceful and appallingly unprofessional as they continue to snipe at her after the interview ends. Bunch of jerks.
ITA. It is unfair to pin this on Cara.
I think Cara was fine. Cara is across the country in a dark room with spot lights pointing at her. It also looks like she doesn’t have a monitor to see her interviewers, so she is basically on a conference call, with lights in her eyes and a camera in front of her, I don’t think she can find a good place to focus her eyes.
The questions were either really long for such simple questions, or just strange. After the, did you read the book question, the next question was asking, is it easier to focus when she is so busy, and would it be harder to focus if she wasn’t so busy. How does anyone answer that question.
It was established she is a busy girl, and she loves everything she get to do. She had an emotional work engagement for the movie that went late into the night the day before. I can understand that being tiring the next day.
I think Cara was fine. She shouldn’t have to always be perky in interviews, when she is giving nice, long answers.
The questions started off sort of demeaning and she wasn’t getting where they were coming from so she handled it poorly. But I think the anchors were patronizing her in a borderline rude way and she was not skilled at doing it right back well.. She’ll learn.
She could have handled it more graciously but they were pretty rude and ganging up on her from the start i.e. “You’re a model, you’re too dumb to read ha ha ha!” The female anchor in particular was out for blood and quick to slag her off and cut the interview short when all she’d really done was bite back. A lot of the times bad interviews happen when they let more than one person tag team the interviewee like this, I think they do it on purpose half the time, now their crappy little local show has made headlines. I do think Cara is a bit of a spoiled brat, her appearance on Graham Norton cringed me out but I really don’t think she was out of line here at all, she just gave attitude where she got it. Not smart maybe, but I really don’t think she g.a.f.
Basically justified, but still not smart.
As someone who worked as an anchor and a journalist, I can tell you that this type of behaviour toward the guest, no matter who it was, would get me fired. It was their fault, 100%. No matter how guest behaves, it is up to you to make the best out of situation.
They were egging her on from the start, I am most certain they were aiming for something like this to happen. Pathetic and disrespectfull.
The anchors were rude, prejudiced and baiting her – and she took the bait. I think she needs media training to handle these situations. Be snippy and sarcastic without being rude – hard balance to manage, but achievable.
Cara seemed over it and kind of rude, but the anchors were asking dull questions and trying to be funny when they really were not. Also the ‘Carla do you actually read’? .. come on.
I’m an American and something about the Sacramento people rubbed me the wrong way. I’d never seen her interviewed before, but I think she initially tried to be nice. Not everyone has to be jumping through the roof with perkiness first thing in the morning (in fact, I can’t stand when celebs act like that (for me that makes them appear to lack depth). I don’t feel like her salary should be part of the equation (anchors make decent money themselves anyway, right?). I feel like the anchors, especially the woman, were a little bit like bullies trying to get her to react.
I live in the area and I am appalled at the behavior of the interviewers. Wether Cara is privledged and young shouldn’t matter and doesn’t give them the right to gang up on her and treat her so poorly. And get her name right, you two bit knock offs!
So yeah, I am upset that they we behaving like the worst kind of yokels. The female anchor needs a good talking too, preferably with three people to her one, then she might understand what a hide-behind ass hat she was.
As the retired noon producer of a major market one-hour news show. I would have asked management to hand out a one-day suspension to that anchor team for unprofessional behavior.
I think she’s actually trying her best to be polite in the interview. They just didnt get her sense of humour and kept asking more and more stupid rude questions.
I’m sure if this happened to any of those top movie stars they would probably walk off within 1 min of the interview.
The Sacramento anchors owe her an apology. She was on the East coast doing a morning show for CA: a 3-hour difference — she must have gotten up early to do the interview. And they were chiding her for not being perky! They ganged up on her and were downright rude!
Someone should speak to them about how unwelcoming they were. They made themselves look petty and small minded. Grow up, Sacramento anchors!
Agreed. Terribly rude.
If she was on the East Coast, then she was three hours ahead of Sacramento, not behind.
To me it looked like something happened just before they went live and she was still digesting that. Her body language is off even before first Q was asked.
I think needs some media training to not look down when she waiting for the delayed sound.
But those reporter’s were totally unprofessional!
You want to stop living off daddy’s money and be a Movie Star? Be grateful, be gracious, be polite and thank your good luck because there are thousands of people waiting tables right now who would love to be in your place! This girl reminds me of Kristen Stewart, they all think they are the big thing. You won’t ever see a Meryl Streep acting like this.
When the blogger universe stops acting as though any model Partying hard or doing coke, well, guess they’ll have a lot less to bait the minivans to click on their “stories”.
On this date, anyone ridiculously naive enough to believe that any star, model or actor, doesn’t indulge in cocaine, is a sad Taylor Swift crusader. ( taylor does as well).
A celebrity doing drugs is absolutely no news until they enter rehab or overdose.
You want to hate her for being rich? Cool! She’s definitely a different look. I’m on board with some different looks. Nepotism, sure, but she truly has something. Suki Waterhouse, who came from wealth, and took part in a highly publicized fake romance with the legend in his own mind, and paid publicists, sexiest man, doesn’t have it, or anything close to it. She’s the ultimate in basic. Pretty more than most, but even with the Hollywood fake relationship simply solidifies basic.
I digress, Cara is immeasurably over the fame whore,”supermodels” that the paid press tries to promote. You mad about nepotism, look to the Jenner models. Sure Kendall fits the mold, tall, skinny, angular features, however she has no it factor. Cara has the it that short and beside the norm Kate moss had. She shouldn’t be discounted for her wealth. She simply has it.
I think , like all morning show interviews, it’s not serious, it’s suppose to be light and fluff. They ask similar questions that Cara was asked. Most celebs know that these puff pieces, much like the hotel press junkets where they sit in a room for hours answering essentially the same questions, is par for the course. As such most celebs answer with a smile, and give the same kinda stock answer.
She’s never watched a morning show in her life, because it’s all “did you (do this) to prepare for the role” and “what did you think of (co-star or director)?”. So, yeah, She could suck it up for 5 minues and answer stupid questions to schill the movie she’s in. It’s part of the whole experience of being in a movie.
This woman needs to stop thinking that she is something special and cannot be replaced because just as quickly as she gained popularity and notice, she can lose it. She has come out in defense of her immature, self-important behavior and said “some people just don’t understand sarcasm or the British sense of humor” and that is bullsh*t. There is a time and a place for sarcasm and there are plenty of other British celebs who don’t come off as stuffy jackasses because they know where their bread is buttered. Oh well, let her ruin her own career. She is overrated anyway.
I’m surprised that so many people are supporting & kissing Cara’s ass. Oh wait, no I’m not. Initially I was indifferent to the girl but after seeing this, I don’t care for her one bit. She’s an entitled spoiled cow. Yes the news anchors were idiots pronouncing her name wrong. However, this happens a lot with A listers and they usually just brush it off because it’s what they’re trained to do. Instead she stooped down to their level.
Cara was being a moody little brat from the very beginning of the interview. Asking Cara if she had read the book is a TYPICAL question for films adapted from books. Asking her if she had the time to read it just implied that she is fortunate to have such a bright, busy and successful lifestyle. It wasn’t an attack on her personally. They were trying to praise her when asking that question but phrased it clumsily. Both parties were unprofessional towards the end – especially the anchors. To be fair, Cara provoked them due to her ego taking control of the situation. I think Cara was in the wrong from the beginning. To me she just came across as an entitled, ungrateful child.
I do not buy the “oh, she’s just using a dry, sarcastic British humour” argument. I am British and this little brat was giving them serious attitude from the get-go. She needs to get over herself. This is what American morning show hosts are like and she is in a position that many would kill for.
I did get surprised though. Girl is nothing special, didn’t think she had any fans.
@Alex I Agree with everything you’ve just said!
The anchors are the ones who seemed rude and idiotic! She was boring, but not rude.
So I watched that shitty interview twice. I simply think she wasn’t prepared and needs to reconsider her publicist who should have stepped in and managed this prior too the situation. THat programme is earlier that NY right? So she would have had enough time to get coffee in her. Those questions aren’t rocket science and if her publicist had prepped her properly she would have know “Hey just some light questions, be light airy cheery go your way rejoicing” Lack of preparation ends up coming across as dull, off timing and getting hurt. Those anchors were dicks but they were prepped. One of them saw the movie, one referred to her IMDB, another to the popularity of the author. I am sure this isn’t the first time they were snarky, but when you do this you prepare, her publicist should have known the personalities of the anchors. Its light morning fare as opposed to what did Margaux teach you about life…She partied the night before and didn’t sit with her publicist. In fact you have to wonder if her publicist didn’t try to prep her but she slept late.
ive British friends and American friends and she just seemed tired and rude, she needs to relax on the partying if she wants people to want to see her and not just the movie.
She’s at work. She should be a professional, save the sarcasm and do her job – which is to promote the film. Also, I find the suggestion that Americans just don’t understand the “complexity of English sarcasm” offensive. Give me a break. The anchors were thrown off because she was being unprofessional. Some of America’s biggest sweethearts are known to be monsters behind the scenes. But in front of the camera, they do their jobs, charm the audience and make people want to see the film.
I don’t think anything of Cara, but those anchors – especially the woman – were a bit of jackasses. They sounded very patronizing (because it’s a teenage movie?), condescending, which was incredibly obvious in their very silly questions.
I thought both sides were wrong. She acted like they were nothing and that she had to go through it like it was a dental appointment. They acted all butt hurt.
I think she immediately got defensive when they called her “Carla” and her emotional/social immaturity just took over from there. She still has five years until her Saturn Return, and the realization that she is not the center of the universe. In the meantime, we can only wish that she learns from these experiences because going to prison ala Paris, Lindsay, and Martha, is so out these days.
haha…I think the “Carla” sets her off and she’s in a crap mood for the rest of it. Plus those brief morning show appearances necessarily involve rapid-fire puddle-deep questions that almost defeat the purpose.
I thought Cara was rude right off the bat. Her facial expressions, body language and replies were just like one big eye roll waiting to happen.
And for those saying, “But oh, it’s sarcasm, it’s British humour”….well maybe it didn’t translate well. Because I didn’t find it funny and apparently, neither did the anchors
Oh damn. What a bizarre interview, from both parts. I’m not a fan, but I think Cara (not Carla, damn it) was a bit better than the anchors. They were taunting her, and there’s nothing more irritating than someone taunting you when you’re serious and want to keep this way. Disrespectful and unpolite.
I used to work at that TV station 20 years ago. It was a crappy little WB station back then and Good Day Sacto was a shitty little show with unprofessional, snotty hosts then. The weather guy would interview us when we were coming into work. “Why yes, it is raining Stew.” The news desk flips over to a stove top. One day the morning people left the burners on and flipped it over, almost burning down the station. I found it hilarious…smoke billowing all over that tiny little set.
One Friday afternoon, Joe Carnahan ran around looking for a hand to be in a promo shot. Lucky me, I was the only one with decent hands and a manicure. We laughed our asses off. Joe is seriously one of the funniest guys I ever met. That was about a year before his.first movie premiered at Sundance. Damn, I feel old.
Those anchors were horrible! They couldn’t get her name right and started off with insulting questions. They were very patronizing as well, and I think she handled herself with more restraint than I would have managed. Her only crime here was not putting on a fake smile.
It’s disappointing that people need to fit a particular mould to be accepted. It seems as though people just wanted to Cara to be bright, bubbly and braindead like so many other actresses feel they need to be in these inane interviews. She was just normal, a bit quiet, but answering the (rambling and incoherent) questions with a few jokes but generally quite seriously. Was she supposed to be giggling and cooing the whole time? Ugh. UGH.
The interview itself was condescending and rude. It seems that if you put another actor or actress in Cara’s place – with the same questions and tone – this would be a whole different story.
Burn! That sh*t was funny! I don’t know what was funnier, Cara trying to suppress how annoyed she was being up early and talking to extremely annoying people or the overly animated interviewers dissing her. I always hated ‘peppy’ people getting upset at me for not being on a corny, peppy level with them and then getting extra annoyed when they try to call me out on it, especially when they sound like morons. “Geez Louise”!
I’m shocked that so many people are sticking up for Cara! Wow! Her behavior was appalling. Yes, the news anchor got her name wrong the first time and corrected it a moment later. Big effing deal- get over it! News people make slip ups with their words all the time- I’m sure it was an innocent mistake. I have been interviewed to promote films and charitable causes quite a few times- if my name had been stated wrong then corrected I might have been bummed but I wouldn’t have let it ruin the interview because that would have been a reflection on ME. She also could have politely corrected them. She was giving off major attitude and body language from the start. I got her sarcasm- it’s not a matter of not understanding it, it’s just completely the wrong place to be using sarcasm. No one expects her to be bubbly during an interview if that’s not her personality but ffs be professional, polite and gracious. She should be completely mortified by how that interview went. The anchors did lay into her at he end which was unnecessary and unprofessional as well, but her responses to the questions were just rude and bizarre and the questions were not out of line. If I were the producer of Paper Towns I would be SO PISSED at her!! I’ve found after working with several actors and actresses who have reputations for being difficult, that when someone is rumored to have a certain reputation it’s usually well deserved. Hollywood is a small town. Good luck making the transition to acting Cara!! (Sarcasm) Her entitled attitude is SO apparent. No one wants an unknown talent (in terms of acting anyhow) with an entitled attitude like that who can and will inevitably cost the production more money due to their attitude. Productions will put up with diva like antics from A listers because they know at the end of the day, their names are bankable but an unknown…. No. If the film has done poorly at the box office in addition to this people are not going to be throwing scripts her way. In my opinion she will not be able to really break through as an actress. Unbelievable. She clearly can’t see the big picture reason for why she was on the show in the first place- to promote the movie and herself. Terrible job at both.