I've seen gifs from this Nerd HQ moment, but never the whole interaction. Jared is not only incredibly sexy and gorgeous in this, but his usual funny self and sweet with this fan, trying to ask him a question!
McLaren PR manager: so when it comes for your image in f1 and how you would like to define yourself, your brand could be a lot of things. it's a manifestation of who you are, the image people come to associate with you, a story about your personality for people to attach themselves emotionally to over what could be many years–
Oscar Piastri: it’s Australia
McLaren PR manager: i’m sorry what
Oscar Piastri: it’s Australia
McLaren PR manager: ...but there are so many possible narratives to explore. could be full of potential, you know, the young come-up, the ascendant wildcard, cold technical skill
I mean, they KNEW they couldn't talk about their amazing show (and mind you, I TOTALLY support the strike, no questions asked!) but whoever thought playing a stupid game for the WHOLE FUCKING HOUR needs to be given a VERY stern talking to!!!
You have six amazing actors on that stage, all with a shitload of life under their belts (sorry, Con *cackles*) - you could've let them talk about ANYTHING, could've asked about basically EVERYTHING, and they could've still adhered to the strike rules and made it a fun panel!!! (Somehow this now feels like the con itself didn't trust that they would actually do this which makes me even more mad!!! They've been on the lines, they KNOW what can and can't go, no matter how badly they WANT to talk about OFMD! GEEZ!)
But you go and have them play a stupid game, where two of them barely understood a thing (and you didn't do jack shit about it), the questions were silly and boring (which Rhys actually pointed about because that man was (rightfully) ANNOYED AS FUCK!) and for those of us at home some answers weren't even readable because the camera person didn't know where to go first.
They all TRIED so hard to play along but it was just sooo embarrassing to watch, and I feel so soo sorry for everyone, the amazing cast on stage and the people in the audience. (Even worse for poor Matt to have his first convention be like THIS!)
(Yes, i am VERY mad at the wealthy studio assholes who are not able to see that paying their artists a living wage would benefit EVERYONE *grrrrrr*)
There could've been sooo many other ways to run this panel and sadly they really fucked it up.
(Right now watching DT who's just rambling along about pizza and bagels, audio books, his dogs and all the NOT SAG things he'd done, (while adhering to the rules!) which is adorable but also a very good example as to how to do SO MUCH BETTER!!! (but then again, that moderator was PREPARED!)
So yeah, that was a terrible disaster and an utter train wreck, and I can only hope every other con after this (while the strike's still ongoing) does better - for the sake of the cast AND the audience!!! NOBODY deserves this!!!
/rant end
Please understand I am NOT mad at ANYONE striking - they are NOT at fault! It's the fucking greedy studio bosses who think they can get away with their sleazy shit!!! But I am sad that the convention people weren't able to come up with something less humiliating for a cast that deserve the fucking WORLD!!!
obviously zachary levi has said some… rather questionable things… but regardless he is also friends with jensen and danneel (and was the host/moderator of the nerdhq panels that j2m(+mark) did) so the fact that this wound up in his instastories is highly amusing
idk who the hell this man is but this is hilarious