Michael & Alicia Fassbender ~ A Loving Couple Thread

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Oh, I see. The quotes are part of the signature thing. It's automatic. Sorry, I'm new to this forum. Someone in this thread said that she made some PR mistake and I was just trying to figure out what it was. I guess some people might think her W magazine interview might come across as arrogant, but I think she just came across as a very self assured actress who openly wants to be more famous (refreshingly honest). If that's all people were talking about in the thread, it's a tempest in a teapot.
 
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moonmae said:
I think the Alicia cyberbullying is getting out of hand, and I agree that dating Michael is a huge factor. I've watched her in a few films and I think she's a really good actress - there must be a reason she keeps getting hired! I didn't like her in The Seventh Son, but I didn't like anything about that movie...

That said, I do think her PR people need to come up with a new strategy and do damage control. For a relative newcomer and unknown (I know she's not really, but for the general public she is) to introduce herself to the wider public as THE NEXT BIG THING/ OSCARS comes across as pretty damn arrogant. Jumping the gun on the oscars is a bad, bad move. I don't think this is a male/female issue - if some young actor said that, I would think he's pretty bigheaded too. There's nothing wrong in thinking that, but not the smartest thing to say. Chastain was shopped around on magazines while her movies were released or after, and her movies were very well received (Cannes, Box office hits) so she was on solid ground. Plus she comes across as very grounded in interviews. Alicia's done great work in her movies, but they haven't won any festival coverage or smashed box office records, so she doesn't have anything solid to back her up.

Hope she recovers from this PR stumble. I think she's talented and charismatic, and looking forward to seeing more of her work.
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What was her PR stumble? I'm late to the conversation obviously, but am just curious.
 
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BagBerry13 said:
This is a perceived PR fail. Mainly by Americans who want their actors humble and modest. This quote underwent a lot of interpretation. Everyone can take it the way they want.
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Indeed. The irony is that some of the "stars" who pretend to be humble and modest in interviews are the ones living in multi million pound gated mansions, flanked by bouncers and who demand shops are cleared so they don't have to breathe the same air as the rest of us. Whilst Alicia lives a modest humble life minding her own business.
 
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pearlyqueen said:
Indeed. The irony is that some of the American "stars" who pretend to be humble and modest in interviews are the ones living in multi million pound gated mansions, flanked by bouncers and who demand shops are cleared so they don't have to breathe the same air as the rest of us. Whilst Alicia lives a modest humble life minding her own business.
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That's not only limited to American actors as you can see with Alicia. They want everyone that works there no matter the nationality to pretend like they're just coincidentally in the Oscar race and that no team of agents or publicists has helped them. It just fell in their laps and "God smiled upon them".
 
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Regardless of how she lives, I think it's great that she's pretty straightforward about wanting the fame part. While fame does have its challenges to be sure, all of them want it badly. It's disingenuous when they say they don't want it.
 
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kahajose said:
Regardless of how she lives, I think it's great that she's pretty straightforward about wanting the fame part. While fame does have its challenges to be sure, all of them want it badly. It's disingenuous when they say they don't want it.
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That's one of the misinterpretations. I doubt she wants the fame part. She just wants to be better known as an actress. She wants to be known for the talent not for whom she's dating. And since all these films were due this year she was clearly becoming more known. You had to be blind to not notice her.

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Most know how to strike the right 'modesty' tone for the masses. Poor Anne Hathaway is an example of someone how over adjusts in her attempts to come across as down to earth. Classic reaction formation.
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Hardly anyone finds Anne Hathaway humble. From what I hear most people find her annoying. She's too desperate and seems ingenuine. She would've sold both her kidneys AND her liver to get that Oscar.
 
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Yeah. Hathaway does try to be humble though. The only one who outdoes Anne Hathaway on that score is Gwyneth Paltrow. On the other end of the spectrum is Jennifer Lawrence who could teach master classes on how to be a lovable movie star.
 
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