Kiwi Encounters with Celebrities IRL - It's that guy from that thing!

[Quijibo69]

My best friend growing up did animation in Ballyfermot, which is kind of a big deal in Ireland. The whole school was setup by the production company of Amblin Entertainment, which was producing Don Bluth movies at the time. It was a whole animation industry, with the college providing budding talent for animated movies. You talk to people from the time and they thought they were going to rival Disney. Unfortunately they got the tail end of the Bluth movies (all the shit films between All Dogs Go To Heaven and Anastasia), and the company was liquidated in 1995.
Cut to the chase, and my friend got to meet people who actively worked on Don Bluth films, he was so eager to know what it was like working for such a visionary: they said it sucked. They got overworked to meet an extremely high standard, not knowing if their work was going to make it into the film; alongside constant budget cuts so their jobs were in constant jeopardy. One guy said working on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the best gig he ever got

At least none of them are sex pests. There's quite a few in the voice acting industry, I won't go into any detail here. It's going to be strange next year.

 

[PunkinMan]

Saw Lou Ferrigno once in 2019, didn't talk to him because I was working though.

 

[Screamer_2]

One time I tried to arrest Mel Gibson and he called me sugar tits then told me the jews caused all the worlds wars.

At least he demand you "just fucking smile and blow me."

 

[Troon_Patrol]

Neil Young was really polite and quiet for a rockstar.

Ving Rhames is a fucking asshole weirdo who pisses outdoors in public bushes instead of just the toilet in the retail establishment.

Rainn Wilson was very likeable as a person and he was the kind of guy who could make you laugh without even trying.

Charlie Sheen looked like someone had reanimated a dead body that died due to starvation. I hope he's doing better now.

Anna Paquin dressed like a women 30 years older complete with 1990 "mom jeans" during the height of her career.

I saw Kelly Kapoor around 1-2 am in a diner not much to say, the voice gave her away she sat the table next to me.

I had short conversation with Dennis Haysburg, he was polite all I can really say.

Kevin Smith was the nicest guy ever for a celebrity I had ever met.

I had along conversation with Ronald Shusett, great writer most famous for screenplays 1979 "Alien" "Total Recall" and "Minority report" . We talked for an hour mostly about projects he wanted to get moving. I don't think anyone here would believe half the shit he told me about other hollywood scifi directors not creep stuff just unusual personal beliefs. The man truly believed in aliens, as in little grey men visiting people on earth.

Jason Swartzman was cool very humble and kind of quiet, super short like 5'3"

Adrian Brody was really full of himself, not rude just that guy that thinks he's the shit.

The guy from Puddle of Mud Wes Scantlin, went on for about 5 mins how much he hates his ex wife to myself a total stranger, we were discussing his Corvette, I don't recall how he worked her into the conversation.

I walked by a dozen people I've recognized but really not much to say about it beyond we made brief eye contact or I met their PA and heard weird shit 3rd party. The all time winner was a guy named Paul who had done at least 10 years for attempted murder or something like 40 prison tattoos swastikas to 1488's and etc. When you are a celebrity or just have a good attorney the first thing they tell you after a DUI/drug arrest is join AA immediately. Scott Weiland Of Stone Temple Pilots got arrested for dope for like the 4th time and his sponser was Paul. Paul catches me listening to the Core Album working on my car and proceeds to tell me all the private shit he knows about Scott Weiland he was never supposed to tell anyone. They both died about 5 years later.

 

[Sean Shemmy]

I met Tim Allen at a restaurant in the early 2000s and just went right up to him and immediately panicked and didnt know what to say my palms were really gross and sweaty and I just held my hand out to shake it but he didn't so i kept looking all around the room and avoiding eye contact but I was standing and blocking his way in the hall on the way to the men's restroom, finally he was just like "Dude, what" and at the same time I blurted out "TOOL TIME" with my head held down away from his eye line and I just kept sweating and standing there, i guess he didn't hear me because he said "What?" and I said "you're the guy on tool time" and he just grimaced at me with this look on his face like I had just puked all over him or something and Tim Allen said "I gotta take a piss" and at the exact same time he said that I said "I watch it all the time" and we interrupted each other and so I then smacked myself hard on the forehead and yelled, "STUPID, STUPID, STUPID" extremely loudly in the hallway and then when he tried to pass me all I could think to do was make those grunting noises like the ones he used to make on tool time like "AEUHHH?! AEUHHH?!" and he kept staring at me with fear in his eyes and went into the bathroom and I just followed him in and I don't remember anything that happened after that because I blacked out

I'm pretty sure you jerked him off after you went into the bathroom with him, sick fuck.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

In South Korea with my (Korean) girlfriend at the time. We were in Dongdaemun (I think) playing some shitty toy machine in an arcade off the main street.

I spoke fairly good Korean at the time, and the weeks I had been in the country so far had given me ample time to use it.

At one point some guy in a mask (COVID style mask, which Koreans have always worn - this was before COVID) and says to me in, in Korean 'you're quite good at that.' I tell him thank you, and continue smashing the machine, filling a garbage bag we had next to us of toys.

My girlfriend suddenly comes to a realisation of who it was who was speaking to me - turns out he was the lead singer of some huge k-pop band in the mid-2000s. The guy had two 'bodyguards' with him wearing outrageous designer clothes.

After some acquaintance, he ended up giving us 100k Won each, told me I was good at the machines (again) then left.

Fun story on my travels, but I can't even remember the name of the group. Something like 5dragon?

 

[Carlos Thin]

When I was like 7 I met Michael Nesmith from The Monkees, he was a pretty reserved guy, did not give the air of a musician at all, even though he was probably the most talented of them all, and seemed pretty fascinated that the television show was still airing in the 90s

 

[Pale Empress]

I never met him personally but Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance frontman) used to buy records from a mailorder label I worked at. He was into a lot of cool, obscure music which made my respect for him go up quite a bit.

Some other "celebrities" I've run into who are cool: Matt LeBlanc, Bijou Phillips, John Haughm, and Lana Del Rey

Danny Masterson was decidedly not cool. I didn't learn until way later how scientologists almost exclusively only hang out with other scientologists and structure their lives accordingly. I met him long before he was revealed to be a rapist, but even then he felt very "off" with strange vibes.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Just last night I had a chance encounter with J. Elvis Weinstein, the original producer of MST3k and Freaks and Geeks. Nice guy. And yes, because of him Joel and Trace made cameo appearances in Freaks and Geeks. Got to tell him I supplied VHS tapes of MST episodes to Ireland