Sarah: Celebrities ARE just like us?

December 9th, 2008

The most fascinating part of my job is being able to come face to face with iconic celebrity.

It’s cheesy, but I’m usually able to find some mutual common ground where I can relate and that’s why I find the art of communication so special and so interesting.

In the age of celebrity the idea of human connection may have changed, especially when so much money can be made at the expense of complete strangers. I guess it depends where you find your truth. Or whether or not you’re looking for it at all.

I remember meeting Gwen Stefani for the first time during her second solo album press tour and how she changed my perspective a little. I missed the old Gwen Stefani, hanging off a mic stand wearing a cut-off T-shirt, with thick liner and an attitude. The shiny new polished icon in the videos didn’t really seem as authentic. But after I spoke with her I got it. She was equally as interesting, vulnerable, down to earth, beautiful and talented as the version super-fan me would have wanted. Just in her own way.

It’s easy to forget that celebrities are just like us, except completely different. But isn’t that true for everyone we’ll ever meet?

Top Five pearls of wisdom/gossip I shall gift you of my one on one with Tom Cruise:

5. He really must be one of the most charming men on the planet.

4. He’s not at all creepy and kind of has more of a ‘dad’ vibe rather than a ‘searching for Xenu’ vibe.

3. He has a quite calm intensity about him which must be in part responsible for his exquisite luck with the fairer sex and success as one of American’s most iconic actors.

2. He’s ridiculously nice. Our conversation included him insisting that I could have ‘as long as I needed for the interview’, concerns about whether or not I was getting enough face time on camera and asking me how I planned to spend my holidays.

1. He used the expression: “bust a cap in his…” when describing his own questions as to why Hitler was never assassinated during WW2 (one such attempt serves as the plot for his latest Film Valkyrie)

Check out the film, it’ll change the way you think about Nazis. OK maybe not, but if you’re a history buff you’ll love it.

Posted on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pm by Sarah Taylor and is filed under Celebrities & Pop Culture.