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Tiffany Haddish was stopped by an ET reporter at the Vanity Fair Oscar After-Party who asked the star—who was now in a dazzling light green gown after stepping out at the Oscars in a dark green patterned dress—if she "did a little costume change." 

"Um," Haddish began, looking slightly taken aback. "I'm not wearing a costume, I'm wearing Dolce & Gabbana. It's called an evening gown, darling. No one's paying me for this, I paid for it. It's custom, thank you." Meanwhile the reporter bent over in embarrassment and replied, "Time of death for me: right now."

She told Haddish she looked gorgeous and the comedian replied, "This is not an acting gig. This is my life. This is what fame looks like. This is what success looks like. This is what money looks like. This is what it looks like. This is what it looks like," she repeated while staring into the reporter's face. Soon after, Haddish pointed out that the reporter was not wearing any shoes, after which they laughed a little about the weather and quickly wrapped up the cringey encounter. 

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Nicole Kidman was interviewed by The Guardian about her movie 'Being the Ricardos.' Kidman plays actress Lucille Ball, while Javier Bardem plays her on-screen husband, Desi Arnaz. Kidman praised the real-life couple for their extraordinary relationship, despite the fact that it ultimately came to an end. "This film says you can make an extraordinary relationship thrive and leave remnants of it that exist forever," she commented. "Sometimes you're going to fall in love with someone who isn't going to be the person you spend the rest of your life with. That's all very relatable." 

The interviewer then asked if Kidman was alluding to her relationship with Tom Cruise. Kidman responded with an emphatic denial, and even accused her of perpetuating the outdated narrative that a woman's experience must be defined by her relationships to men. "I would ask not to be pigeonholed that way, either. It feels to me almost sexist, because I'm not sure anyone would say that to a man."

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Britney Spears has become a prime example of the worst of journalists, especially as revealed in the doc 'Framing Britney Spears.' A 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer particularly disturbed fans, in which the anchor defends Maryland’s first lady for saying she wanted to “shoot” the pop star because she believed she wasn't a good role model due to her outfit choices. Sawyer also framed Spears as the bad guy in her split with Justin Timberlake: “You broke his heart, you did something that caused him so much pain, so much suffering,” Sawyer said, asking, “What did you do?” Spears, then just 21, later broke down in tears.

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On December 13, 2022, the singer shared a since-deleted message on her Instagram finally addressing the infamous ABC interview. "Do we dare forget the Diane Sawyer interview in my apartment almost 20 years ago?" she wrote. "What was with the 'You're in the wrong' approach?? Geeze... and making me cry???" She continued, "Seriously though... I lived in my apartment for a year and never spoke to anyone... my manager put that woman in my home and made me talk to her on national television." She also addressed her split from Justin Timberlake in 2002 and how she was "in shock" afterward and "never spoke to anyone for a very long time" until she was "forced" to talk to Sawyer. The pop star added that she was "a baby" at the time, but now she knows how to stand up for herself.

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Jason Momoa -

During an interview with the New York Times published on July 30, 2022, the 'Game of Thrones' actor expressed his discomfort with a question that seemed to imply that he had some sort of say in portraying the sexual violence inflicted through his character Khal Drogo onto Daenerys (Emilia Clarke). The interviewer asked whether the actor had any regrets about filming the sexual assault scene, which took him aback. The interview proceeded with Momoa giving very short answers, until the end when he brought up how that earlier question "left a bad feeling in my stomach." The actor said, "I was bummed when you asked me that. It just feels icky—putting it upon me to remove something. As if an actor even had the choice to do that." He explained that as an actor "You don't get to come in and be like, 'I'm not going do that because this isn't kosher right now and not right in the political climate.' That never happens. So it's a question that feels icky. I just wanted you to know that."

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Ricky Martin -

In an interview for People's Pride issue, the singer recalled a traumatic experience of being asked about his sexuality—something he'd not yet shared—on television by Barbara Walters.  When Walters asked him to shut down the rumors that he was gay, he refused to answer at first, then eventually said, "I just don't feel like it." Martin later came out in 2010,and he explained in 2018 to Trevor Noah on 'The Daily Show' that the decision to come out had been so difficult because his loved ones were telling him it would end his career. So, naturally, being confronted on TV about it was traumatic, and Martin admitted that he still has "a little PTSD" when he thinks back on Walters' invasive interview. "When she dropped the question, I felt violated because I was just not ready to come out," Martin told People. "I was very afraid."

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Daniel Kaluuya -

Daniel Kaluuya won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Shaka King's film 'Judas and the Black Messiah.' Backstage, HFPA and South African journalist Margaret Gardiner asked Kaluuya, “I’ve been following you since the beginning of your career, and I was wondering what it meant for you to be directed by Regina, what this means for you at this time with the world and the state that it’s in?” Kaluuya's face said it all.

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Gardiner had apparently mistaken him for Leslie Odom Jr. who starred in Regina King's 'One Night in Miami' and who was also nominated. The actor paused with confusion, then simply responded, “Say, that question again, please?” Gardiner then asked, “I was wondering what it meant for you to win with the world and the state that it’s in in the moment?” Kaluuya responded politely, but Gardiner came under intense fire on Twitter. She tried to explain that she had wanted to ask about Regina King not being nominated as director and his win separately, and claimed that there was a sound issue, but Kaluuya's expression of disbelief has already gone viral. 

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Samuel L. Jackson - KTLA anchor Sam Rubin interviewed the actor on live TV and asked him if he'd gotten a lot of reaction from his Superbowl commercial. Jackson was quiet for a moment, then asked, "What Superbowl commercial?" Jackson hadn't ever been in one—but the 'Matrix' actor Laurence Fishburne had.

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Samuel L. Jackson - Someone off-screen clued Rubin in and he quickly apologized, but Jackson wasn't satisfied. "I'm not Laurence Fishburne! We don't all look alike! We may all be black and famous, but we all don't look alike!" Rubin kept trying to change the subject but Jackson wouldn't let him. "You're the entertainment reporter? And you don't know the difference?"

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Anne Hathaway - When promoting 'The Dark Knight Rises,' Jerry Penacoli of Extra TV started pressing the Catwoman about her figure and how she had to be in "perfect" shape. Hathaway deflected at first, saying, "It wasn't about being in perfect shape, it was about being able to do the stunts and the fighting perfectly."

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Anne Hathaway - Penacoli continued to talk about her leather suit, and asked further about her "feline fitness regime" until Hathaway asked, "Are you trying to lose weight? What's the deal man, you look great. No, no, seriously we have to talk about this. What do you want? Are you trying to fit into a catsuit?" Lesson learned.

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Scarlett Johansson - Jerry Penacoli strikes again! In an interview with Johansson and Jeremy Renner for 'The Avengers,' Penacoli asked the Black Widow if she was able to wear undergarments with her outfit, and the actress said, "You're like the fifth person to ask me that, what is going on? Since when did people start asking other people in interviews about their underwear?"

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Scarlett Johansson - Instead of dropping it, Penacoli said, "Because it is such a skin-tight—" but Johansson cut him off and said, "I'll leave it up to your imagination. Whatever you feel like I should be wearing, or not wearing, under that costume..."

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Rashida Jones - Walking the red carpet before the 2015 SAG Awards, Jones stopped to talk to TNT reporter Danielle Demski. After talking about Jones' dress, Demski said, "You look like you've just come off an island or something, you're very tan, very tropical." Jones, the biracial daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton was visibly baffled and replied, "I mean, you know, I'm ethnic."

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Kanye West - In a 2010 interview with Matt Lauer, following West's statement that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," his show played a clip of Bush's response which called West's statement "one of the most disgusting moments of [his] presidency." West got fired up and said, "I didn't need you guys to show me the tape in order to prompt my emotion to what I'm going to say. Y'all don't got to do TV stuff with me. This is reality."

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Kanye West - Not quick enough on their feet, the station did a similar thing a few minutes later with a clip of West interrupting Taylor Swift as she accepted an award. West said, "How am I supposed talk if you're gonna run this thing in the middle of when I'm talking?"

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Taylor Swift - On the Grammy red carpet, an ET reporter said to the singer, "You're going to walk home with more than maybe just a trophy tonight, I think, lots of men." After staring at her dead in the eye, Swift said, "I'm not gonna walk home with any men tonight. I'm gonna hang out with my friends, and I'm gonna go home to the cats."

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Fifth Harmony - At the AMAs, an interviewer asked the group, "So if somebody in your crew were to act a fool and h** it up a little, would anybody here call them out?" Camila Cabello had the perfect response: "I feel like we, as women, aren't in the position to be telling other women what to do and what to not do."

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Nicki Minaj - In an interview with Power 105.1, the singer had a very valid question for her unprepared hosts: "How are you gonna ask me about a video and you haven't even seen it? The video is four minutes. Y'all wanna either discuss something personal, or not discuss anything that I'm here to talk about. How do you not watch a video of an artist that's coming on your show?"

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Megan Fox - In an interview about her role in 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' the reporter asked if she thought it was time for more female heroes, and Fox replied, "Do you think that I would answer anything but yes to that question? Do you think I would be like, 'No, it's not time for women to be in movies, let's take it back 50 years.'"

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Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling - In an interview after 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' the reporter brought up how Cooper was voted "Sexiest Man in the World" and Gosling said, "Here we go. Oh boy … What is this, a slumber party? I feel like we should be getting pedicures and watching 'Beaches' if we're gonna have this conversation."

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Emma Stone - In an interview with Teen Vogue, Stone was asked about her changing hair color, and 'Spiderman' costar Andrew Garfield said, "I don't get asked that," to which Stone replied, "You get asked interesting, poignant questions because you are a boy."

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Ariana Grande - During a radio interview with Power 106FM, the singer was asked to choose between her makeup and her cell phone, and she replied, "Is this what you think girls have trouble choosing between? Is this men assuming that that's what girls would have to choose between?"

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Ariana Grande - The host kept pressing, asking if she can really go anywhere without her cell phone, asking how many hours she can go without it, and doubting her the whole way. They then asked about her favorite emojis, and she mentioned the unicorn, to which he replied, "Girls," and she retorted, "And boys ... You need a little brushing up about equality."

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Lorde - At the ARIA red carpet, a reporter asked the singer if she'd be able to keep up her success or if it would go "downhill" from there, and Lorde was understandably insulted. "What sort of question is that? You're the one with your bow tie hanging off!"

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Rihanna - At her Rogue Man fragrance reveal, a reporter asked the singer what she was looking for in the next man, and Rihanna replied, "I'm not looking for a man, let's start there."

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Jerry Seinfeld - Larry King was asking the comedian in 2007 about the end of his hit comedy series, clarifying, "They didn't cancel you, you canceled them," as if it was news to him. Seinfeld responded first with incredulity, asking, "You're not aware of this?" and then, "Is this still CNN?"

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Jerry Seinfeld - The actor went on to emphasize that his show was number one on television, and that of course it was not canceled. Then he asked to see Larry King's résumé. Awkward!

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Amy Schumer - In an interview following the release of 'Trainwreck,' Schumer said her character in the film was essentially herself. The reporter went on to call her character "sk*nky," but claimed he wasn't trying to offend her. She replied, "Whatever you're trying to do, you are. That's a rude question."

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Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox - On Katie Couric's short-lived show, the hostess asked Carrera, a transgender model, not about her career but instead about her surgeries. "Your private parts are different now, aren't they?" Couric asked, and Carrera politely asked to talk about something else, but Cox was not satisfied.

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Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox - Cox said, "I think that the preoccupation with transitioning with surgery objectifies people, and we don't get to deal with the real lived experiences," going on to list problems such as discrimination, violence, and employment concerns. To her credit, Couric was all ears and apologized later.

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Amy Poehler - A male interviewer was struggling with what women want in men, explaining, "Now you have to be awkward and adorable," and Poehler had the best response: "This feeling that you're having right now, which is like 'I have to be all things,' it's a feeling that women have every day and have their whole lives. So you're just starting to experience it now … and we have to deal with all those juxtapositions every day, but I'm glad you're finally experiencing it as a white male."

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Jennifer Lawrence -

When the actress was inevitably asked to speak about "the pieces" she was wearing on the red carpet, she responded, "What do you mean? Like this is the top… and this is the bottom." She's not wrong.

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Rowan Blanchard - When asked on the red carpet if she had any dieting tips for other girls, the young actress said, "Try and reverse that. 'Do you have any dieting tips for other teenage boys?' I mean, come on."

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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer - Playboy asked the 'Broad City' stars why they're "sneakily" feminist, and Jacobson clarified that they're both upfront and proud feminists. Glazer added, "I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians 'female comedians.' That seems more like a sneak attack." Jacobson joked that if you play an episode backwards, there are hidden messages, and Glazer added, "'Diiiie, men' … that's all we're saying."

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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer - Then, when the interviewer asked about the show's lessons for "female friendship," Glazer replied, "There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone. Abbi and Ilana's friendship represents that ride-or-die dynamic for anyone to whom it speaks, not just women."

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Charlize Theron -

The actress was asked at the Cannes Film Festival where all her on-screen rage in 'Mad Max: Fury Road' came from, and she replied, "Uh, surprise. Women have that. I'm not the only one."

See also: Actors who played roles outside their comfort zone 

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