People Who Worked for Celebrities Share Their Most Surprising Stories

While working as an entertainment reporter, most celebrity encounters happened on controlled ground—press junkets, film sets, carefully timed interviews. One stood out for all the wrong reasons. Director David Cronenberg made it clear he had zero interest in participating, barely acknowledging the interviewer’s presence.

Known for cerebral, unsettling films like The Fly and Crash, Cronenberg’s dismissiveness felt deliberate. The questions didn’t matter, nor did the film he was promoting. The interaction wasn’t hostile so much as indifferent, leaving the impression that engaging with press was beneath him.