Henry Cavill, seems like a nice guy, and I think we would have a lot of common interests to talk about.
Would the “celebrity” have a security detail?
Living: Keanu Reeves
Dead: Marcus Aurelius
Fictional: Jean-Luc Picard
Oh you know I’d force a certain King in Chief to sit down with me for four hours, it would be delightful, with a spectacular closing act.
Living: David Attenborough
Dead: Marilyn Monroe
Fictional: Ford Prefect
It would be interesting to talk to Decartes, but I don’t speak Français, so it would have to be… idk… Nick Bostrom would be interesting
“Never meet your heros.” is as old as celebrity itself.
I think many of my heroes live larger in my mind than they could or should ever fulfill; they couldn’t possibly live up to that hype and I wouldn’t want to take it from them through the actuality.
Damn shame.
(Side-glance at you UK BBC.)
Uncle Roger. I want to either enjoy the roast of YouTube videos or have yummy food that I wouldn’t necessarily order myself
Keanu Reeves seems like such a nice guy! I haven’t heard a single bad thing about him!
Do I have to do it tonight, or can there be a ‘waiting period’? (I have nothing to wear…)
I’m not burning to have a conversation with any celebrity in person, but I’d probably pick some famous philosopher or scientist or something so that the conversation would at least be interesting.
I agree. I think there is a reason we have the saying: Never meet your heroes.
Anyone I pick would in my mind have been built up to some impossible to live up to standard that they could never meet, so picking someone passionate about something I like seems like the better move.
Probably Linus Torvalds
I just don’t pay that much attention to celebrities, I don’t give a shit about all the BS around being famous, I don’t care about their opinions on literally anything, etc, so even if I had heroes they wouldn’t be celebrities.
George Washington Carter, my personal hero
Roisin Murphy
Hmm.
Honestly John Rys Davies, based solely on Dominic Monaghan’s description of him ordering dinner when filming Lord of the Rings.
"John Rhys-Davies… took us to a restaurant. And it was when we’d only just started to get to know John. And we sat down at this huge, long table, and he said, “I think I will order the food for tonight.” And we said, “Oh, ok, on you go John.” And you know, we were having a conversation, and the waitress came over, and John ordered food that would probably have fed 35, maybe 40 people. And there were about 12 of us. And he just said, “We’ll have nine lobster and 15 shrimp, and 12 red snapper, 15 filet mignons, and some grilled mushrooms. I’ll have 12 onions and a wild boar…” You know? All this kind of stuff - just like, “Pheasants, and grouse, and - do you have partridge? Bring the partridge.”
Haha that’s great. I haven’t heard that before
While you have him, please ask him to play Le Cagot in a movie adaptation of Shibumi. I cannot think of a more perfect fit for an actor playing that role.
Joe Mama
Neko Case!
