Interviews are part of the job for both celebrities and journalists alike. A lot of times, both parties go in knowing what to expect, what you can talk about, and what you can't.
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Some will tell you the mark of a good journalist is one who knows when to push to get that extra detail or two.
It's a slippery slope, however, because if you push too far, you risk blowing the whole interview, a feeling the interviewers in these blown efforts are clearly familiar with.
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Here are some recent examples of interviews going awry.
1.This Good Day Sacramento host peeved Cara Delevingne off by telling her she needs a nap.
2.The full-body cringe that is this reporter mistaking Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne.
3.Selena Gomez refused to answer a reporter who asked her to explain ex Justin Bieber's gross behavior at the time, after the two had split.
4.She was no stranger to weird questions about her exes sadly, as seen by her reaction when she was asked how "gay" ex Nick Jonas is in another sit-down.
5.Tom Hardy didn't take kindly to a reporter from an LGBTQ outlet asking about his "ambiguous" sexuality.
6.Dakota Johnson and Melanie Griffith getting into an argument mid-interview on live TV...on the Oscars red carpet nonetheless, over 50 Shades of Grey. What a time.
7.And who can forget the moment she effortlessly put Ellen DeGeneres in her place on her own show?
8.Ellen wasn't too kind to Taylor Swift in this 2013 chat when her dating history came up.
9.A Russian reporter tried to corner Mila Kunis into dissing her Friends with Benefits costar Justin Timberlake, and she wasn't having it.
10.Robert Downey Jr. walked out of an interview after an out-of-pocket question about his family and their shared history of substance abuse.
11.Draya Michele wasn't cool with Wendy Williams's line of questioning about her dating history, which really aimed to shame her.
12.Jesse Eisenberg's whole 2014 sit-down here was...bizarre. He calls the interviewer the Carrot Top of interviewers.
13.Quentin Tarantino engaged in a heated back and forth with Krishnan Guru-Murthy while promoting Django Unchained where he was clearly unprepared to be challenged about the film's themes.
14.This wildly inappropriate question was leveled at One Direction right after asking them when they'd go from "boy band" to "man band." ... Yikes.
15.Jay Leno using Kanye West's dead mom to shame him over the Taylor Swift VMAs incident.
16.Similarly, when Dylan McDermott was uncomfortably questioned about his mother's death.
17.Diane Sawyer came at Britney Spears so hard in this interview — while she was already in tears — about her responsibility to her fans' parents, her breakup with Justin, and more, a true hot mess.
18.Anne Hathaway shut down Matt Lauer's weird comments about her leaked nudes.
20.Even Oprah Winfrey has gotten it wrong, like when she asked teenage Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen about their weight and clothing sizes amidst rumors about their bodies and relationships with food.
What other times have you seen celebrity interviews go terribly wrong? Who handled it well, and who handled it terribly? Let's hear it in the comments.
