Maggie Gyllenhaal is the kind of actress it is impossible to dislike. She is beautiful and smart and funny and ridiculously talented. If she is in a movie, I can usually assume it is going to be a good one. But she is also a celebrity and because she is a celebrity, she deals with paparazzi and she hates it.
"[The paparazzi] can be so brutal, so unkind, Gyllenhaal told The Huffington Post and while I get her point, this whole new trend of celebrities fighting back against the media is a little annoying.
First it was Ashley Judd fighting back on Huffington Post. Then it was Scarlett Johansson doing the same. Even if I agree with them on the content of what they are saying, I also think it is time celebrities suck it up
As far as I can tell, celebrities are wealthy, live in great houses, have endless beauty treatments and have very cool jobs.
In exchange for these "perks" they deal with the occasional unflattering photo and intense media scrutiny. And they need to cry about that? We all have aspects of our jobs we don't love, but suck it up, people. Most would kill to have your jobs and your lives. You are in no position to complain.
Obviously, those who call female celebrities "fat" if they gain a few or "ugly" EVER deserve to be hated and called out, but the idea that a performer who makes their living in the public eye and makes a VERY handsome living at that, would complain that the public is interested in them is just absurd.
Suck it up, famous people. You are lucky to be where you are. You got your golden ticket, you won the lottery. You hit the damn jack pot. No one should pity you, so stop pitying yourselves.
I love Maggie G. but she is wrong on this one. It's when they stop taking her photo that she should be worried.
Do you feel sorry for celebrities like Maggie Gyllenhaal?
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yes, just because they are celebs doesn't make them any less a PERSON... Would YOU like someone poking their nose in YOUR business 24/7??
If it were me, I know I'd rather focus on being an actress than being famous. Sure I'd like to be well known to get more jobs, but being in tabloids would not be my thing, I wouldn't want to put my life out there for sale, even if it would make me famous. I'd just want to act. Maybe she's the same way. I don't think it's fair to judge or say that it's fair. She might not want her photos on trashy websites and magazines. I wouldn't.
I disagree...Many celebrities become famous so that they can share their ARTISTRY or craft with the rest of the world, not for everyone to be in their personal business. A lot of them worked very hard to get where they are and didn't just get their golden ticket handed to them. Reality stars are the really the only ones who should have no complaints about people in their personal business, at least in my opinion.
This is the same mentality as "eat every last bite on your over-filled plate because there are starving kids in Africa!" Gimme a f*cking break. They are people, not objects. Yes they should have to deal with a lot of the attention but the media, which is driven by the fans in an vicious cycle, has taken things so far they absolutely have room to complain.
Just because their job is public shouldn't make them public property. In a civilized society they would take pictures at public events and conduct civil interviews with the stars and that would be what is expected of them as public figures. Unfortunately, this is not a civilized society and the paparazzi are jackals.
Just like "actual" people, everyone's different. Please don't confuse fame-whore celebrities with those that identify mostly as actors. They have the right to a reasonable expectation of privacy... not open season, the way some think they deserve.
No, the idiots following them around need to suck it up and knock it off. They are just people doing a job, nothing more. They have the same right to privacy as everyone else. We DO NOT NEED TO KNOW EVERY TINY DETAIL of these people's lives.