I honestly didn't bat an eye. Woah, no pun intended there... Seriously, that just came out...
ehem...
Actors, especially successful actors, are living out the greatest biggest hugest mindfuck in all of mankind's history. And the only thing wrong with this past incident is that people, other people, non-famous-actor people think that actors are somehow NORMAL, that they live in the same mental-emotional-physical-spiritual space that everyday people do. And I can't blame them because for the average human it's not POSSIBLE to imagine what it's like to live in such a severely different world, their brains aren't capable of the complete rewiring it would take to honestly empathize with living in a glass bubble.
I honestly don't think I would be able to consider it either, except I've done a lot of weird drugs, and during those weird drug trips have reflected on this question many times, so I feel like I'm a little closer to understanding it, not to mention incredibly empathetic anyhow.
Christian lives in a world where he could walk to the nearest video store and pick up a movie with him in it. But he can't because he would get stormed by paparazi and commoners. He lives in a world where just down the street is a movie theater with a gigantic picture of him wallpapered across the bannister. He lives in a world where EVERYONE thinks they KNOW HIM. We know more about his social life, personal quirks, eating habits and inner struggles than we even know about OUR SPOUSES, BEST FRIENDS, OR SIBLINGS. And yet we don't know him, nor do we have EXPLICIT permission to know him/be in his space. He has no space. In one inhale he is royalty and entitled to anything he wants/ has absolutely no boundaries, and in a deep exhale he is a caged creature borne from the industry that feeds him, a spectacle to be prodded and poked. He's a spoiled brat who always gets his way, and yet he's not granted the simple privilege of walking down a street and breathing fresh air.
What does this have to do with him flipping his lid, getting irate? EVERYTHING. Granted I also believe that acting in general plays a huge role in the decay of self and a complete transformation into a narcissistic paradigm (imagine thinking everything you do people are focussed solely on you, and to actually have it BE TRUE). But then you also throw in the huge amount of money, the low consequence of living a destructive life and not dealing with your demons, and then this idol worship. Voilah, you got someone who probably already came into the field a pretty eccentric if not neurotic person and have just put them into a social experiment the likes of which rhesus monkeys with their eyelids sewn open don't even know how to comprehend.
And then we're shocked when they act out. It's like people at the zoo throwing bananas into the monkey cages and then acting disgusted when the monkey gets diareah and tries to dismember their four year old. We've created these people and then sit back in awe when they beat their cage doors.
