A Collider Writer Says One Of The Male Avengers Was A Complete Asshole To Him
Being a part of the world’s biggest movie franchise can cause one to become irritable with the lessers. An example of this comes to us from Collider reporter Stephen Weintraub on Twitter. Most of you own a TV in addition to basic cable so you know that Avengers: Infinity War comes out on Friday because the ad runs 500 damn times a day and it’s made even THIS hardcore comic book geek sick of their cinematic universe. Apparently one of the cast members is feeling that way, too. Stephen interviewed some of the cast members and left wishing that one of them would eat something featuring romaine lettuce in a Yuma, Arizona-located restaurant.
Stephen tweeted that one of the actors was an “complete fucking asshole” to him. (And he told Twitter followers that it wasn’t occasionally messy Josh Brolin who is playing bad guy Thanos in the movie.)
Just experienced the worst interview i've ever been part of in 12 years of reporting in Hollywood. I sat down & one of the actors then proceeded to be a complete fucking asshole to me for 4 min and treated me like shit on the ground. Will never forget what happened.
— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) April 21, 2018
He was so insulted that his anger required multiple tweets. Apparently, this guy was so awful that Marvel had to apologize to the reporter (and snatch all the evidence of the incident). Wow, Groot sounds like a dick, huh?
The interview went so bad the studio apologized to me and also pulled the cards to make sure no one could ever see the video of what happened. If you saw the way he treated me you would lose all respect for the person. Completely unprofessional. Publicist should have stopped it.
— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) April 21, 2018
This scoop was so juicy that even Jessica Chastain requested the tea (as well as commiserating with him).
— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) April 22, 2018
But Stephen isn’t talking. Really, you figure a big CGI tree with one line would be an easy interview but some trees get all arrogant when they make it in Hollywood.
a lot of people are asking me to name who was an asshole today but it's not going to happen. I've said everything I'm going to say about it. The tweet before this about a story tomorrow is just a normal @collider story
— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) April 22, 2018
Who do we think it was? ONTD points out that some of the cast members who were at the Avengers junket were Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Winston Duke, Mark Ruffalo, Dave Bautista, Don Cheadle, the already-mentioned Brolin, and Chris Pratt. Obvious guess Jeremy Renner isn’t doing press for the movie.
I’m still going with Groot. You can die under a tree during a lightning storm so trees are known to suck occasionally.
Pic: Wenn.com