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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 13, 2017 21:09:01 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 13, 2017 21:18:30 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Oct 13, 2017 23:17:45 GMT
Well, this seems to have been a very informal affair. I guess he has some new winter togs!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 13, 2017 23:23:21 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 14, 2017 0:45:03 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Oct 14, 2017 1:25:12 GMT
Ah, it’s good to see Ben dress himself now and again, isn’t it? 😂 Warms the cockles of my heart. It’s also great that his chambray shirt is getting rather...tight across the chest. Looks good. 😍
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Post by mllemass on Oct 14, 2017 15:14:46 GMT
I was thinking that maybe Benedict's surprise appearance at the Walk with Me premiere has something to do with the HW scandal. Wouldn't it be part of Karon's job to handle his public image? It would make sense right now for him to be seen doing something good (supporting theatre workers) and promoting a documentary about monks. A Google search for Benedict will still bring up stories about HW, but now those stories might be pushed down the list by photos of Benedict posing with a monks. And his casual outfit might have been part of the plan, too. He looks like a regular, humble guy rather than a wealthy Hollywood big shot in a fancy tuxedo.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 14, 2017 16:43:28 GMT
I don’t think those photos will be widely reported. The strike is a very localized event and even The Walk With Me premiere was a very low-key event. Also his name is mentioned but in articles related to the future of the movie/company. They are centering the actual scandal around biggest Hollywood names with longer relationships with Weinstein.
He produced the movie so maybe that's the reason he wanted to promote it. It seems he was intelligent enough to not to do the red carpet walk with the press, tho.
Alejandro González-Iñarritu was in the American premiere so it seems those monks has powerful followers!
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Post by roverpup on Oct 14, 2017 17:01:52 GMT
Well, I agree with sgev and going to believe that is not what is happening here.
I think he is just chilling out and that he is wearing what he wants to wear and that it isn’t some PR scheme to “polish” his ordinary man “creds”.
I am going to assume that he and Sophie went to the low-key movie premiere because of a life long interest in such things and that BC was involved as a narrator, and not because it would look good if he hung around with some Buddhist monks instead of walking a red carpet to take the glare of the HW scandal off of him. From the pictures I saw of the event it looked overall like a dressed down affair - not just BC.
And I am going to continue to think that he supported the workers at the protest because he lives in London (and this is an issue specific to that city), is interested in social issues and has publicly shown a constant concern for human rights throughout his career and it isn’t a calculated move on his part.
I also think that as far as PR is concerned all these things were so low-keyed that they couldn’t be considered to be very effective as ways of countering any negative fallout from the unfolding scandal, so I don’t think that theory holds much water IMO. I don’t think any of that sort of thing even registered with most fans of BC - not the way his public statement on the scandal did at least.
I think he is just living his life the way he always has. I’ll leave any theories about him arranging his life through PR efforts to the Septics - they are the experts in that field! LOL!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 14, 2017 17:20:59 GMT
When it was announced he will be there, I wondered if he would attend press because surely they would ask about Weinstein but if you see the photos they are from the after party in which he could had talked with someone but in an informal way. I guess it’s more easy to reject interviews there because it’s behind the scenes than in the red carpet in which they go for the press and fans.
It seems to me he watched the movie at the theatre and then went to the after party.
Thinking about it it will be difficult for everyone doing Oscar campaigns this year no matter who is. I can’t see journalists ignoring Weinstein influence over the awards for years. I mean I read an article in which Joe Wright spend all the interview explaining how he knew a few things about Weinstein and how he avoided to work with someone so abusive like him and how he always do the right moral thing, etc. just to be asked at the end of it about him casting Casey Affleck for his next movie. The journalist said that he answered with one syllable and was rescued by a publicist who just ended the interview! He doesn’t even had a working relationship with Weinstein!
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