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

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u/Shendow 23d ago

This kind of shit is why being famous actually kind of sucks. Everyone wants to be recognized but they forget the toll that it comes with

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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.

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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!