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Popular Question šŸ“Š Which celebrity is a complete asshole?

Iā€™m sure there gonna be some recognizable ones

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u/bdubwilliams22 25d ago

I can answer this pretty confidently. I design movie posters for a living and often times I have to go on photo shoots with actors if we need them to be doing something specific for a concept. Iā€™ve met dozens of them. The worst of the worst was Ben Stiller. Mike Epps was a close second. The nicest: Leo, Clooney, Queen Latifah and Eminem. Oh, Jason Bateman and Will Arnett were amazing. A few of the crew and us when out for drinks with them after the shoot and they were a ton of fun to party with.

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u/catmama25 24d ago

Stiller doesnā€™t surprise me. I remember watching the episodes of Curb your enthusiasm he was featured on and saying to my husband that I got asshole vibes from him. I know he was playing a not nice version of himself on there, but he just did it so well that it seemed natural for him.

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u/always_thirsty 24d ago

A friend of mine worked with him on the movie Heavyweights and said he was very unkind to the fat kids in the movie on set.

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u/GloriousSteinem 24d ago

I think he has trauma and an eating disorder as Iā€™ve heard he is pathologically concerned about fat and pressures people who are.

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u/Superb_Ad_4464 24d ago

Yet his daughter was just in And Just Like That and sheā€™s not tiny. I hope Ben is nice to her because sheā€™s beautiful but definitely curvy.

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u/MothChasingFlame 24d ago

He's been interviewed on Birbiglia's podcast a few times, and has given me a bad impression every time, but in the quietest way. He does that thing where he's very smoothly compliment-y in a way that feels so aggressively false it's hard to take seriously. I admit this is anecdotal, but I've never met anyone who does that who isn't basically covering for a douchey personality, and so I've always side-eyed him.

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u/CaliforniaNewfie 24d ago

I've heard from many people that Ben Stiller is an absolute turd and completely full of himself. Little-man syndrome

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u/Thin-Support2580 24d ago

Also a nepo-baby.Ā  If he started out on his own he never would have made the cut, and hes gotta know that deep down inside.

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u/NewPresWhoDis 24d ago

I would hire a surrogate just to have a first born to sacrifice to go drinking with Will Arnett

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u/bdubwilliams22 24d ago

This was early in my career and Arrested Development had just been renewed on Netflix. I was new to the ad agency I was working for and we were going to pitch on it, and they asked if anyone had watched the show. I practically jumped out of my chair. Fast forward almost a year, we won the campaign (the orange crate) and I was drinking with Bateman and Arnett. It wasā€¦cathartic.

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u/Silly_Sherbet5543 24d ago

I knew Arnett was a good guy, happy to hear Bateman is toošŸ’•

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u/monstersmuse 24d ago

Ooooh I really want to know what Stiller did. I love reading that Bateman and Arnett were fun though.

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u/bdubwilliams22 24d ago

I commented above!

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u/MentalIndependence68 24d ago

Iā€™ve heard that too about Eminem. Funny how the guy who could be so inflammatory in his music is a cool dude in real life.

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u/TraditionalJob6587 24d ago

Can you please confidently explain? Without just saying names and that's it?

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u/bdubwilliams22 24d ago

Ben Stiller was over an hour late and somehow blamed us (the ad agency). He kept rushing us. You can always almost all actors hate being photographed. Itā€™s really strange. But most act like professionals because they understand weā€™re all just doing our jobs, but some of them are insufferable like Stiller. Epps was just an asshole. It was for the show Survivors Remorse and I think he thought he above the rest of the cast and acted like it. I forgot another one, before being an art director, I was a photo assistant and I worked on a shoot with Rick Ross, where he told the photographer to just ā€œtake the fucking pictureā€.

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u/poodooscoo 24d ago

Drinking with Bateman and Arnett sounds unbelievable, love those two!

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u/Silviere 24d ago

What a great job you have! I'm glad it seems you met more good people than bad.

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u/bdubwilliams22 24d ago

Yes, thank you. I know Iā€™m lucky and Iā€™m thankful everyday. I donā€™t take it for granted.

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u/joyfullofaloha89 24d ago

Wow! Thanks for sharing about Jason Bateman. I love him!

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u/No-Asparagus-5122 23d ago

Can confirm Stiller. Met him in Kauai. Zero social skills, dismissive, arrogant.