A press junket aimed specifically at promoting a movie? Yes, it’s rather unprofessional. Of the journalist. I think somebody mentioned here RDJ telling a journalist to take a hike in a similar situation. And I side with RDJ on that one too.

Easy for her. Tom has two movies to promote. He can’t afford to go radio silent. That, is what’s probably written in his actual contract.

“helped him in the long run”? Hum. Where’s that run at, exactly? Because, I don’t see it here.

That’s... what he did?...

.... and here I thought there was no hatin’ here.

“It’s not our fault Hiddleswift is the most interesting performance you’ve ever given, my dude.”

You don’t get to wear silly t-shirts in public in your off time, and have a private life?! Ah, damn it. OK... so where do I send the url for my perpetual live-feed? :(

Nah, it wouldn’t be different at all. I distinctly remember people demanding explanations and his head on a platter, long before the GQ article, only because he would not “come clean”, or whatever rationalization was going on at the time.

when you explicitly choose to make it public in order to further your career

Well, just because it’s only King Kong, it doesn’t mean his life is now a free-for-all. That might be what he’s getting “up in arms about”. And that doesn’t look too unreasonable to me.

“People want more”. So, where does it stop? Since it’s clear it won’t stop even with the subject asks for it to stop... What is the reasonable “consequence” to somebody else wanting a piece of your life, only because, in the past, you disclosed it for a short while?

He’s non threatening enough to be the media’s new whipping boy.

True about Hank Williams movie, but High Rise is not the sort of film whose value is proven by how much money it makes. It’s extremly limited and limiting to movies and art in general, to make it all in to a box office race. Plus, for both High Rise AND I Saw The Light, Tom’s acting was still mostly praised by…

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Why, I feel left out. :(

The secret is red wine.

The scathing shaming of Hiddleston over his speech, is quite the anthropological case study. One’s clearly better off being a near (or certified...) criminal a-hole, than a dummy with good intentions. Given this, it’s little wounder the US is preparing to get an a-hole for president (and other places in the World…

Also, notice how the shaming of the actor deserved not one, but two headlines, while the actual apology, was shoved down a pack of assorted gossip.

The extent of spiteful shaming going on far surpassed the simple mockery for a speech thought out on one’s knee. People here are saying he became a joke, calling him a whore, a self-centered and prejudiced douche, shouting on how he deserves the worst, completely distorting the speech to the point of near libel, and…

So cringy... that he had to actually apologize for something that clearly had no ill intent in the first place.