Michael Fassbender

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LifeLuvLaughter said:
What kind of contract stops someone from talking to someone? It's not a NDA, that stops you talking about certain things but not actually talking with someone, the only contract I can think of is to be with stalking. Anyway, never mind me I just found that odd.
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When I used to be a ball girl at the Montreal Omiun tennis, you are not allowed to talk to the players or celebrities unless they ask a question. So, I guess that it is the same thing at the Grand prix
 
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LifeLuvLaughter said:
What kind of contract stops someone from talking to someone? It's not a NDA, that stops you talking about certain things but not actually talking with someone, the only contract I can think of is to be with stalking. Anyway, never mind me I just found that odd.
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Ah yes dear, but it isn't the forbidden to talk to a celeb in a "diva" sense, it's more about security and organization, and F1 has most of the strictest organizations, at least from my experience the ones I attended a couple of times. The grid is the busiest area, racers, reporter people, hostesses and mechanics are moving up and down and even behind the grid, it's just as frantic. Now add to that a celeb and to be interviewed, to be allowed on the grid for a certain amount of time and other team garage for publicity etc (say MF in front of the RedBull car, photoshoot organized and done in a very short time) and then moving the celeb to another place to watch the race etc. Basically if the staff approaches a celeb, one moment of distraction and before you know it you can get knocked down by a car or get your sandal tangled into a wire (the latter happened to me at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2011) and it all goes down and they all get the blame and here comes the lawsuit etc. Crazy perhaps but it's all about security, not to be untouchable er se.

The staff can happily talk to the celeb at an after party or else but when the race car is on, there is no chance or then very small chance, everyone has to be focused.

I was watching the Roland Garros finale earlier this afternoon, and a dude jumped on the court trying to disturb the Nadal/Ferrer match but at least 5 bodyguards were on his a$$ and he just faded into the back scene, and a bodyguard appeared behind Nadal and another one behind Ferrer before I blinked an eye.
 
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LeeLooDallasMP said:
But it has nothing to do with to be forbidden to talk to a celeb in a "diva" sense, it's more about security and organization, and F1 has most of the strictest organizations, at least to the ones I attended a couple of times. The grid is the busiest area, racers, reporter people, hostesses and mechanics are moving up and down and even behind the grid, it's just frantic. Now add to that a celeb and to be interviewed, to be allowed on the grid for a certain amount of time and other team garage for publicity etc (say MF in front of the RedBull car, all organized in a very short time) and then moving the celeb to another place to watch the race etc. Basically the staff approaches a celeb, one moment of distraction and before you know it you can get knocked down by a car or get your sandal tangled into a wire (the latter happened to me at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2011) and it all goes down and they all get the blame and here comes the lawsuit etc. Crazy perhaps bt it's all about security.

The staff can happily talk to them at an after party or else but when the race car is on, there is no chance or then very small chance.
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Was she talking about FI I thought she was talking about working of the X-men set?
 
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LifeLuvLaughter said:
Was she talking about FI I thought she was talking about working of the X-men set?
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If so, then my mistake, I thought she was talking about F1, I didn't read properly.

On set it depends on the position you occupy. For some reason, some people aren't allowed to approach a celeb while they are working with them on set, it could be the cooking/catering staff etc. But it's not [necessarily] the celeb asking for it, it's more like the production writing the contract that way... they are paranoid about the actor perhaps talking too much and giving away some spoiler about the film they are shooting etc.

EAT : and sorry LifeLuv, I actually edited the post you quoted, must have overlapped whilst I was editing.
 
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Thank you for the information. I knew some of that stuff and other bits I didn't so you learn something new everyday.

It is probably the way she phrased it that had me confused but I re-read her tumblr and to me at least she makes out that she was there the day Michael & Nicholas were splashing about in the fountain.
 
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LifeLuvLaughter said:
Thank you for the information. I knew some of that stuff and other bits I didn't so you learn something new everyday.

It is probably the way she phrased it that had me confused but I re-read her tumblr and to me at least she makes out that she was there the day Michael & Nicholas were splashing about in the fountain.
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Aye sorry, I didn't read her tumblr, I got caught up in the F1 frenzy and carried on with it.

Gosh Michael Fassbender dancing moves again... now I got the Get Lucky tune in my head again and can't help it but think he busted a few moves on it... off rhythm of course :p
 
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Alys said:
So Micheal Fassbender is watching with the REd Bull team while the others are watching with the Caterham team. He must have better connection.:smile1:
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I know that Michael has been a Red Bull fan for at least a couple of years or least their guest and before whatever team Michael Schumacher was in, I guess.

ETA: Marshal dies at Canadian GP after accident involving recovery truck. That is so sad.

ETA2: Podcast involving Michael. I am downloading it now and it is only available 30 days. Not sure if people outside the UK can grab it. Sorry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cff1

ETA3: Brilliant Podcast!
 
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I don't know anything about F1, but I listened to that long podcast for him. I just love his voice and how casual he is. I lot of actors seem to put on a persona when they're interviewed and he doesn't.
 
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mollie12 said:
I don't know anything about F1, but I listened to that long podcast for him. I just love his voice and how casual he is. I lot of actors seem to put on a persona when they're interviewed and he doesn't.
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With my boyfriend we sometimes get into one of ours crazy moments and we play a game called "What if X celeb was doing this?" as like opposed to the celeb personality (i.e. what is seen so far through interviews etc) and it happened last night he randomly started the game "What If Tom Hiddleston was at a F1 grand prix what would he say about cars?"... we bet that he'd say it's very compelling the mystery of an engine, he will tell a very moving story about his great great great grand uncle who had a car and he still has the picture somewhere in his mansion, the he will compare a car race with prancing and finally introduce The Bard aka Shakespeare sonnet in a car race somehow... yup that persona it is.
 
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