15 Completely Bizarre Celeb Interviews That Will Forever Live In My Head Rent-Free

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First, I’ll begin with my absolute favourite, which is that this 2017 interview of director David Lynch speaking about his Woody Woodpecker collectible figurines. The story goes that in 1981, Lynch noticed 5 Woody Woodpecker toys hanging up at a gasoline station and “rescued” them. “I screech on the brakes, I do a U-turn, return, and I purchase them and I save their lives,” he recounted. “I named them Chucko, Buster, Pete, Bob, and Dan, they usually have been my boys they usually have been in my workplace. They have been my pricey mates for some time, however sure traits began popping out they usually grew to become not so good.” The interviewer famous that Lynch then appeared “straight forward” and stated “with a grim finality,” “They don’t seem to be in my life anymore.” To which I say…WTF???

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Not weird sufficient for you? Let’s discuss Robert Pattinson’s GQ profile, the place he talks about his enterprise thought for “pasta which you’ll be able to maintain in your hand,” which he is named Piccolini Cuscino. He decides to attempt to make it for the interviewer as a result of “possibly if I say it in GQ, possibly, like, a associate will simply come alongside.” He then exhibits the interviewer an previous field of cornflakes, an enormous novelty lighter, 9 packs of presliced cheese, and sauce. He places on latex gloves and bends tinfoil right into a kind of sphere that he dumps sugar, crumbled-up cornflakes, sauce, and the presliced cheese into. He tries to cook dinner pasta within the microwave, then takes it out and says, “No thought if it’s cooked or not,” however places it within the foil anyhow.

“I imply, there’s completely no probability that is gonna work. Completely none,” he tells the interviewer, then tops his creation with half a bun, which he burns a “PC” into with the novelty lighter, by chance burning his hand within the course of. He then wraps it up with extra foil, squeezes it just a few instances, and decides to place it in what appears to be a microwave, however he claims is an oven, for 10 minutes. In line with the interviewer, whereas within the oven/microwave, “a lightning bolt erupts” and “Pattinson geese like somebody outdoors has opened fireplace,” then crouches and giggles “because the oven throws off stray sparkles of sunshine and sound.” The oven/microwave goes darkish and he stares at it, saying, “Yeah, I believe I’ve to depart that alone. However that may be a Piccolini Cuscino.”

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Ezra Miller has turn out to be embroiled in controversy over the previous few years, however earlier than all that information broke, a GQ interviewer took a visit to their farm in Vermont for what turned out to be a particularly odd interview. Within the interview, Miller is making ready to assist one among their goats give beginning, then says their band is engaged on a metallic track about it. They then sing/yell for the interviewer, “GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, IT IS COMING, IT IS COMING! GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, YOU CANNOT RUN, YOU CANNOT HIDE, IT’S GOAT BIRTH, GOAT BIRTH, NO ESCAPING, NO ESCAPING, GOAT BIRTH!”…whereas fist-pumping.

Miller additionally tells the story of a e-book report they did in first grade. They selected the Stephen King novel Cujo after which did a particular venture on it: “I purchased an enormous stuffed-animal canine, and I coated it in blood. I made a tape recording, and I attached the play button of the tape recorder to the canine’s paw… The thought was that you simply’d push the paw and also you’d hear, out of the voice of this bloody stuffed canine, my dramatic studying of Cujo.” Afterward, “the trainer very politely stated, ‘Ezra, we’ll put this within the closet till the top of the day, after which you are going to should take it dwelling.” Miller additionally says they will “sense” when cellphones are round. And at one level, Miller tells a fan, “I’m Ezra. However you possibly can name me Lil Child, or Candy Bitch.”

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Johnny Depp’s Rolling Stone profile is really one of many wildest profiles I’ve ever learn. In it, Depp says (apparently credibly) that his previous roommate was a financial institution robber, that he as soon as gave his entire home scabies, that he thinks there ought to be a Titanic remake shot fully in a tub, and that planes ought to have sprayed LSD over Iraq to seize Osama bin Laden. “You get a bunch of fucking planes, huge fucking planes that spray shit, and also you drop LSD 25. You saturate the fucking place. Each single factor will stroll out of their cave smiling, pleased,” he informed the interviewer.

At one level, he breaks out a guitar and performs “Wonderwall.” The interviewer additionally has to shimmy over the fence to get out of his property as a result of Depp cannot determine tips on how to open the gate. However the bulk of the interview is about Depp’s monetary troubles, noting his extravagant spending, like $30,000 a month on wine and the time he spent $3 million taking pictures Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes into the air utilizing a cannon. Although Depp claims, “It was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky” — it was truly $5 million — and “It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine, as a result of it was much more.”

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After the entire “changing Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2” controversy, Howard took up an attention-grabbing interest: making an attempt to show that 1×1=2 as an alternative of 1. In line with the interviewer, “He started writing down his logic, in a language of his personal devising that he calls Terryology. He wrote ahead and backward, with each his proper and left palms, typically utilizing symbols he made up that look overseas, if not alien, to maintain his concepts secret till they may very well be patented.” He and his then-wife, Miranda Pak, started shopping for scissors, wire, magnets, and sheets of plastic, then spending as much as 17 hours a day chopping out and becoming a member of the plastic in ways in which have been meant to show his numerous mathematical theories.

The interviewers be aware that the room they’re in is totally crammed with advanced constructing block–like plastic shapes which can be tied collectively or magnetically caught collectively — which Howard apparently loves as a lot as his personal baby. Howard tells the interviewer, “That is the final century that our youngsters will ever have been taught that one instances one is one. They received’t should develop up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they’ll know that one instances one equals two. We’re about to indicate a brand new fact. The true common math. And the proof is in these items. I’ve created the items that make up the movement of the universe. […] They inform the reality from inside.”

Howard’s relationship with Pak can be weird within the interview. Pak is in his home throughout it, and the 2 appear to be collectively, however the interviewer later discovers that they’ve filed for divorce and have not lived collectively shortly. When Howard leaves the room, Pak talks about him, saying that he does not assist out round the home and he or she “in all probability go away[s] him 30 instances a month.” She additionally says they do not have a traditional life and have not often gone to eating places collectively. “We’ve by no means been to the grocery store collectively. We’ve by no means been to the films. I’ve by no means gotten a present from him. […] After which each minute that he has free, it’s to do that,” she says, referring to the plastic objects. “I assist him, chopping, drawing and placing issues collectively. I’ve developed a slight type of agoraphobia currently. I by no means exit. I’ve no mates right here. I really feel like Rapunzel, you recognize, caught in a penthouse with my child.”

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I am actually jealous of the interviewer for this Chris Evans GQ profile that was achieved earlier than Captain America got here out, during which he flirts closely with the author and mainly brings her into his internal circle for just a few days. She even stays at his home after getting drunk, performs a “soar over the pool desk” sport, and escapes via a window to attempt to get dwelling.

Chris’s quotes aren’t all that weird, although he does say that “the instances in [his] life when [he’s] been happiest are the instances when [he’s] seen, like, a sundown” or a waterfall, and appears to have a powerful affinity for top fives and making “jerk-off gestures when he was sick of listening to himself discuss.”

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One other enjoyable long-form GQ profile the place the interviewer mainly simply will get drunk and has a wild time with a celeb (excuse me, the place can I join that job?) is that this one with Channing Tatum, the place he takes the journalist “tenting.” One revelation from the interview is that Tatum likes to do what he calls “spontaneous dwelling invasion” on his mates, like Marlon Wayans, whom he stunned by exhibiting up at his pool bare.

Another highlights: They meet a lot of unusual characters, together with a person on the bar named “Bizarre Tom,” who says he is referred to as that as a result of “the city already had a Psycho Tom and a Vietnam Tom.” Bizarre Tom additionally exhibits them his spouse, of whom he says, “She had most cancers. She’s in remission now, however she misplaced her tooth and her tit. She was constructed like a brick shithouse.” They get dropped at a random man’s home to remain (the pal of two guys they meet at a bar) however resolve to sleep within the city’s deserted jail as an alternative, although they find yourself sleeping in Snuggies in some bushes outdoors after Tatum decides {that a} creepy model contained in the jail cell is just too scary to sleep subsequent to.

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I am additionally obsessive about this interview with Miles Teller the place he makes the interviewer lower pork into tiny items for him, saying, “I haven’t got again tooth. I actually have 4 tooth.” The interviewer additionally blasts his look a bit, noting that he says, “I used to be fascinated about that immediately, how I in all probability suppose I am better-looking than the general public thinks I’m” with amusing, “prefer it’s humorous that he is willed himself into a better tier of male magnificence via limitless confidence.”

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Again in 2022, Donald Glover actually interviewed himself for {a magazine} profile. His solutions aren’t *that* bizarre, however there are nonetheless just a few gems inside, like when he asks himself whom he fashions his profession after, and he replies “Willy Wonka.” However the strangeness of the interview largely comes from disagreeing with himself and asking himself questions that he then appears to get upset have been requested, like when he asks himself, “Are you afraid of Black ladies?” and Glover replies with, “Why are you asking me that?” and “I really feel such as you’re utilizing Black ladies to query my Blackness.”

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You gotta love this notorious Vulture interview with Quincy Jones, who did NOT maintain again when it got here to speaking about his fellow musicians and the music business usually. First, he claimed that Michael Jackson “stole plenty of songs” and was “grasping.” He additionally stated, “Rock ain’t nothing however a white model of rhythm and blues,” and the Beatles have been “the worst musicians on the planet. They have been no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass participant I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even discuss it.” He additionally stated he used to hang around with Donald Trump and referred to as him “a loopy motherfucker. Restricted mentally — a megalomaniac, narcissistic. I can’t stand him.” Jones was mates with Marlon Brando, as nicely, and claimed that Brando would “fuck something. Something! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”

He additionally spoke negatively about T-Ache and Bono’s music (although he referred to as Bono “my brother”). However essentially the most weird half? Jones stated he knew “an excessive amount of,” together with who killed JFK, additionally alluding to figuring out Hillary Clinton’s secrets and techniques and the Invoice Cosby allegations earlier than they have been made, saying, “We are able to’t discuss this in public, man.” The truth is, he makes that declare just a few instances, which makes me marvel…what does Jones know???

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RuPaul as soon as informed a narrative about watching a person drown — to us at BuzzFeed, no much less. “I bear in mind as soon as I had this place that ignored the Hudson River, and I noticed this man on a sailboat and it had capsized, and I went to the cellphone pondering, I’ve received to name somebody. However then I believed, What’s the perfect factor I can do? You realize what? I am gonna pray for this individual. I am gonna ship them loving vitality.” Because the BuzzFeed piece factors out, RuPaul doesn’t say whether or not the person survived.

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In an interview with Males’s Journal, Mark Wahlberg — who was imagined to be on one of many planes that crashed on 9/11 — stated, “If I used to be on that airplane with my youngsters, it would not have went down prefer it did. There would have been plenty of blood in that first-class cabin after which me saying, ‘OK, we’ll land someplace safely, don’t fret.'”

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Sean Penn additionally received fairly labored up about 9/11 in an interview with Selection, saying that if he have been president on the time, “I’d have let White Home counsel know that they’re on trip. I’m not consulting with them. If I’ve to go to jail, I’ll go, however I’m going to kill them. I’m killing everybody that did this,” he stated. As a result of apparently Penn is a few kind of Liam Neeson–in–Taken–fashion vigilante.

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This one’s small, however it at all times makes me crack up. In 2016, Child Cudi stated of his music profession to this point: “Folks suppose that I’ve peaked. I haven’t even gotten a f—ing nut off but,” he stated. “I’ve been pre-cumming for the final eight years. I haven’t even ejaculated a full spew but. So motherf—rs higher get ready.”

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And at last, this one may not be fairly as weird as the remainder, however it’s nonetheless one among my favourite interview quotes of all time as a result of it is simply so humorous and random. In a 2009 interview with Jesse Eisenberg, he says, “Folks on the road typically will say imply issues to me,” and the interviewer asks for an instance. Eisenberg says, “I get referred to as Napoleon Dynamite as a result of I’ve curly hair. I stay in New York Metropolis and I journey a bicycle. I at all times bike down Ninth Avenue, and there’s this child who goes to high school there named Abraham. Each time I go him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his mates giggle. That was a tremendous film, however I wasn’t in it.”

The interviewer then asks how Eisenberg responds to the boy. Eisenberg replies, “I say, ‘Please, Abraham, I’m not that man.” I simply can’t get previous the picture of film star Jesse Eisenberg being bullied by a toddler named Abraham and nonetheless being painstakingly well mannered to him.