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Anyone have any stories about meeting celebrities/athletes/etc? Specifically what did the interactions entail and how would you describe their demeanor? I always find it interesting seeing what public figures are like in person. I'll start off with a very surreal event that happened back in '06, the Summer after I graduated from high school.
I was visiting a high school friend who had recently moved to Austin, Texas. Me and 3 other buddies flew out to visit him. It was a great town and we had a blast. While we were there we decided to go see the premier of Snakes on a Plane at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater. As we are getting seated and ordering I notice about 8 seats or so reserved in the middle of the theater at the prime viewing area. The area has a chiller in the middle filled with ice and Samuel Jackson beers, they actually have the label they used from Chappelle's Show, it was hilarious. Anyway, before the movie starts in come a group of people, among them were none other than Quentin Tarantino and Rosario Dawson. This was right after high school and at the time I thought Pulp Fiction was the best movie ever, so it was pretty cool to be sitting down to watch a movie almost arms length away from the man himself. I had also thoroughly enjoyed The Rundown and Sin City, plus Rosario Dawson is a babe, so we were pretty excited to see her, too.
Well the movie starts and right away I notice Tarantino is on a mission to get tanked. Dude starts going through beers pretty damn fast, probably easily had a dozen by the end, but I wasn't really counting. The rest of his party is pretty close to keeping pace as well. After the movie we decide to go up to them to just tell Tarantino how much we love his work, etc. Dude was cool as shit but by this time he was absolutely wasted. He was sweaty and pretty damn fat at the time. My buddy was wearing a Rick James shirt and he commented on it and started half-assed singing Rick James songs. My other buddy goes up to Rosario Dawson and tells her how much he liked her in Rent because he was a fucking drama nerd. He then asks her to touch his mustache as kinda like a gag or something I guess. She looks over at her female friend, does this eye roll and sigh combo, then pulls down her shirt and rubs her tits in his face. At that point we went absolutely ape shit and pretty much ran out of the theater smiling like madmen and hyped as fuck on the ride home. I got a picture of Tarantino looking wasted and disgusting, but it died with my old flip phone. Either way it was probably the coolest experience we could have had at the time short of banging Rosario Dawson. Both people seemed incredibly fun and friendly (obviously).
Also I trained with a few pro fighters like James Irvin and Scott Smith. Both were very unapproachable and impersonal.
Curious to hear if anyone else there has some interesting stories. Sorry for the wall of text, here is a picture of Ms. Dawson for your troubles.
edit:
Got a little bit of corroborating evidence to back up my story since I was getting a bit of skepticism on here. Did a little internet sleuthing to try to find a pic of Tarantino at that theater and I found this Reddit post from over a year ago from another person who was at that showing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/2wrovb/i_saw_someone_get_kicked_out_of_the_alamo/
Now I didn't hear him yelling or being disruptive during the movie personally but I was sitting two rows behind him not in front of him like the person posting on Reddit. Plus the theater was pretty loud and raucous anyway so maybe he was yelling and it was just drowned out by all the other drunk asses.
I will be accepting my apology whenever you are ready @fbgn
Unless you guys think I made that post on Reddit over a year ago in some grand scheme to make up a fake Tarantino story on Sherdog in the distant future.
I was visiting a high school friend who had recently moved to Austin, Texas. Me and 3 other buddies flew out to visit him. It was a great town and we had a blast. While we were there we decided to go see the premier of Snakes on a Plane at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater. As we are getting seated and ordering I notice about 8 seats or so reserved in the middle of the theater at the prime viewing area. The area has a chiller in the middle filled with ice and Samuel Jackson beers, they actually have the label they used from Chappelle's Show, it was hilarious. Anyway, before the movie starts in come a group of people, among them were none other than Quentin Tarantino and Rosario Dawson. This was right after high school and at the time I thought Pulp Fiction was the best movie ever, so it was pretty cool to be sitting down to watch a movie almost arms length away from the man himself. I had also thoroughly enjoyed The Rundown and Sin City, plus Rosario Dawson is a babe, so we were pretty excited to see her, too.
Well the movie starts and right away I notice Tarantino is on a mission to get tanked. Dude starts going through beers pretty damn fast, probably easily had a dozen by the end, but I wasn't really counting. The rest of his party is pretty close to keeping pace as well. After the movie we decide to go up to them to just tell Tarantino how much we love his work, etc. Dude was cool as shit but by this time he was absolutely wasted. He was sweaty and pretty damn fat at the time. My buddy was wearing a Rick James shirt and he commented on it and started half-assed singing Rick James songs. My other buddy goes up to Rosario Dawson and tells her how much he liked her in Rent because he was a fucking drama nerd. He then asks her to touch his mustache as kinda like a gag or something I guess. She looks over at her female friend, does this eye roll and sigh combo, then pulls down her shirt and rubs her tits in his face. At that point we went absolutely ape shit and pretty much ran out of the theater smiling like madmen and hyped as fuck on the ride home. I got a picture of Tarantino looking wasted and disgusting, but it died with my old flip phone. Either way it was probably the coolest experience we could have had at the time short of banging Rosario Dawson. Both people seemed incredibly fun and friendly (obviously).
Also I trained with a few pro fighters like James Irvin and Scott Smith. Both were very unapproachable and impersonal.
Curious to hear if anyone else there has some interesting stories. Sorry for the wall of text, here is a picture of Ms. Dawson for your troubles.
edit:
Got a little bit of corroborating evidence to back up my story since I was getting a bit of skepticism on here. Did a little internet sleuthing to try to find a pic of Tarantino at that theater and I found this Reddit post from over a year ago from another person who was at that showing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/2wrovb/i_saw_someone_get_kicked_out_of_the_alamo/
Now I didn't hear him yelling or being disruptive during the movie personally but I was sitting two rows behind him not in front of him like the person posting on Reddit. Plus the theater was pretty loud and raucous anyway so maybe he was yelling and it was just drowned out by all the other drunk asses.
I will be accepting my apology whenever you are ready @fbgn
Unless you guys think I made that post on Reddit over a year ago in some grand scheme to make up a fake Tarantino story on Sherdog in the distant future.
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