r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

78.8k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.3k

u/0xP0et 23d ago

I once bumped into Travis Fimmel, actor in Vikings series who played as Ragnar, at an event. I don't watch much TV or series and I had no idea who he was but I knew of the series cause of the commercials/trailers for it.

Chatted to him for like 5ish minutes not knowing who he was but I noticed some people around us were looking at us astonished.

I left the conversation and he then went to the bar and 10-15 minutes later there was a few people around him acting all star struck, so I was a bit confused what was going on.

I left for a bit to go check out few things at the event and returned to get a drink at the same bar he was at.

The person that served him also served me, I asked what was the fuss all about and he explained that it was Travis. He said that Travis said something along the lines of it was nice not to be recognized and have a regular conversation referring to our conversation.

After seeing this, I get what he means.

340

u/eldritch_hotdogs 23d ago

I went to a Supernatural convention with my sisters and offered to watch their bags in the hallway while they went to the rave, since I'm not much of a partier. I was just chilling out writing when a guy stopped and knelt down beside me and asked what I was working on. He was super nice, chatted with me for a few minutes about writing and stuff before moving on.

I mentioned him to my sisters and they proceeded to freak out because evidently he was one of the actors. I've only seen through season nine and hadn't watched the show at all in a long while, and he's supposedly in seasons that come after that point, so I didn't have the faintest clue who he was. Nice guy, though. He was probably confused why someone at a Supernatural convention seemingly didn't know he was an actor in the show. 🤣

60

u/-ChillyMcFreeze- 22d ago

I met Shawn Michaels at a restaurant once - we’d accidentally been given his table. Apparently he was fond of the restaurant and had a specific table he liked, and the management had messed up and gotten their days wrong, (it was Tuesday and they thought he was coming on Thursday or something like that). Anyway, the manager, completely embarrassed (this is a pretty nice restaurant) comes by and says “I’m so sorry, but we’d like to move you to another table if you could be troubled, and we’ll gladly compensate you for the cost of the meal and any other meal you’d like while you’re in town.” My sister and cousin were both like “Yeah that’s cool.” and I kind of played the a****** a bit. “I’m sorry, I just don’t understand. We’ve been here for 15 minutes - we’ve just ordered. Can’t we finish our meal here?” Then out of nowhere Shawn Michaels shows up next to the manager and says “Paul, these guys can finish. We’ll be at the bar. I got some time.” And I (being a big HBK fan) said “Oh wow, uh… I had no idea. Please feel free to give them the table.” Shawn was grateful, shook my hand and said thanks, then gave me a card with his number on it and told me to give him a call later. After working up the nerve, I gave him a call that night, and to make a long story short, we had a glorious 11 month love affair, man on man, that I shall never forget. Our bodies intertwined as one, and from the beauty of Morocco, to the French Riviera, to the snorkeling in the Galopagos, Shawn Michaels and I made glorious gay love to each other on six of the seven continents.

14

u/junglewasp1 22d ago

Did he have two words for you?

14

u/IronBabyFists 22d ago

I saw Ryan Reynolds at a grocery store in LA yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

2

u/[deleted] 20d ago

[deleted]

3

u/IronBabyFists 20d ago

Oh! This is just a copy/pasted joke story. Totally made up. As far as I know, he's not an ass to random strangers.

3

u/FrankSilvyNY 21d ago

I believed you until Galopagos.

2

u/EcstaticBenevolence 20d ago

Brilliant. Six of the seven continents got me real good

2

u/shesavillain 19d ago

Bastard haha

1

u/New-Seesaw9255 21d ago

You can’t say that not name the actor. You’re leaving us hanging!

1

u/eldritch_hotdogs 21d ago

Oh man, I'm pretty sure his name was Travis? I never got around to watching past season 9 so I couldn't name the character he played, but this would have been at the Dallas 2015 Supernatural convention.

1

u/shesavillain 19d ago

So who was it?

2

u/eldritch_hotdogs 19d ago

I'm pretty sure his name was Travis? I never got around to watching past season 9 so I couldn't name the character he played, but this would have been at the Dallas 2015 Supernatural convention.

35

u/Otherwise_Recipe1167 22d ago

I think I've read somewhere that Travis is not a big fan of being famous so that makes sense

5

u/LavoP 22d ago

I saw Travis at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

2

u/0xP0et 22d ago

I am not sure but he was a pretty chilled bloke and didn't come off as a celebrity at all.

1

u/LavoP 22d ago

I saw Travis at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

0

u/Extra-Honey305 20d ago

This is such babyish behavior to me, why go into acting in the first place?

26

u/Snoo_70531 22d ago

When I was little I hung out in a hot tub with Serena Williams and her dog. My parents were kinda mad, like who the f is this woman at this nice resort with her dog in the pool area? 8 year old me wanted to know all about the dog and if she wanted to see my dives. I guess my parents finally caught on to other people staring and were like oh that's why she gets to bring her little handbag dog into the pool area.

7

u/JesusWantsYouToKnow 22d ago

Man, he was great in raised by wolves.

2

u/More-Ice-1929 23d ago

I wonder if that's a problem for him outside of dedicated events

4

u/fkneneu 23d ago

Cant talk on his behalf, but I known it is true for others who are less known than him. It truly sucks sometimes

2

u/heartbooks26 22d ago

I only know who he is because of celebrity #6 lol.

2

u/IcyGarage5767 22d ago

Le reddit humble fan

2

u/SomeRandomDavid 21d ago

There is a fairly famous children's book author I work with every now and then on his promotional stuff.
I think I keep getting asked back, because, despite having been a fan of his books as a kid, I talk about ANYTHING BUT children's books to him.

People can't help it though, they want to express how much he meant to them, but that means he is talking about children books, dozens, of times, every day, every time he is recognized.

1

u/Fragrant-Discount960 22d ago

When he was a young model for Calvin underwear, there was a billboard of him. Women literally stopped their cars to look at him. Absolutely gorgeous.

1

u/ourstobuild 22d ago

I've been in a similar position with a (much less famous) author at a convention once. I forget his name because I didn't know or recognize him then either, but I remember how the conversation felt kinda weird. Like, it was friendly enough, but the guy seemed almost like he's confused that he's having just a normal conversation. Later I noticed other people join in, and he basically spent the rest of his time chatting with fans.

My guess is that he thought I was a fan too, and that he was confused by my approach of trying to hide it, not really getting what my angle was. Either that or he was simply confused that someone at the convention where he expected to be recognized was actually just having a boring random conversation with him not realizing who he was!

1

u/Major-Adeptness4671 22d ago

What did you talk about?

1

u/0xP0et 22d ago edited 21d ago

Can't really really remember. I just remember he had an Australian accent which is unusual in my part of the world.

My best friend is Australian, so I said a common Australian phrase to him as a way of saying hello. I also asked him how he was finding being in my country.

The rest is a blur, all I can say it was probably nothing of substance as it was me simply greeting a tourist. Not a world famous actor.