Moderator booed after asking Michelle Pfeiffer how much she weighed during Scarface
Here’s that appalling Michelle Pfeiffer moment in full. Her ability to gracefully shrug off such blatant condescension is truly amazing, one might even say Oscar-worthy. pic.twitter.com/cmSfVAF2tq
— Matthew Eng (@Eng_Matthew) April 20, 2018
- At a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival celebrating 35 years of the movie Scarface moderator Jesse Kornbluth opened with the always promising line "As the father of a daughter" before just jumping forward and asking Michelle Pfeiffer how much she weighed while filming the movie
- He was promptly booed by the audience while someone loudly asked him why he needed to know that
- Pfeiffer appeared taken aback, but after saying that she didn't know, pointed out that she was playing a cocaine addict in the film
- Kornbluth said that was his point in asking the question
- When reached for a statement Kornbluth said:
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ONTD as the daughter of a father I want to know... why are men?
In his hypothetical towards De Niro he is simply asking a non-number related question about weight gain.
I'm sure if he had phrased it "Was it physically challenging playing a cocaine addict?" no one would have booed him. But no, not only did he ask how much she weighed he then even suggested a number when she wasn't forthcoming. What an asshole.
They're so pathetic.
the kind of dad that you know talks more than he listens.
Honestly in a situation like that a lot of people panic and freeze so it's nice to see the audience trying to help her out and defend her. <3
I never gave attention to Scarface. Like I knew what it was and all the popular pop culture stuff, but I never say down and watched it. I would always very quickly get bored. It was on tv a few weeks ago and I decided to give it a go. And I really enjoyed it! It was good! I'm older now but I think me buying tons of stuff from Supreme every week has something to do with it. The hypebeast within has changed me. I'm out here actually liking Scarface. What next? The Godfather? I cannot.
With that said, as good as it was GoodFellas>Scarface
I mean, Q&As are so very often disastrous -- I was just reading about the other Tribeca one for Westworld where they ended it after ONE QUESTION because some dipshit tried to give Jonah Nolan his script, like good lord -- but this is extra gross because of the misogyny and the fact that a moderator should theoretically know better. Good for her for handling it so well.
One time I went to the screening of this Danish movie at TIFF and one of the questions was "The places in the movie look a lot like Canada. Did you do that on purpose?"
Another fave was the time I went to see Margaret Atwood and this guy asked this weird convoluted question that no one could follow. Peggy is a TOTAL PRO though and she was like "As I understand it your question is..." and then answered a totally different question. The guy was too in awe of her to answer (like literally he took a knee in the fucking aisle while she was answering his question).
Oh and ANOTHER time I saw La Belle Personne with Lea Seydoux and the director was there and this girl asked him if he had to be sexually obsessed with his actresses to make a successful film (like what???) and the director (who is GAY btw) started laughing and he was like "No, but Lea Seydoux thinks you do" and I was like O_o.
Audience Q&As are always 90% about the audience trying to be friends with the panel members. No thanks.
I have been blessed (or cursed) with never seeing this nonsense irl, but I remember one time watching a Scandal Q&A and the moderator literally opened by saying "These people aren't here to help you advance your career, no passing headshots/tapes etc" and even so some dumbass was like "I'm a musician will you give my demo to your music supervisor."
It really killed the mood.