It is friday at the red carpet again. The last big movie premiers at the Berlinale, “Capote”. The crowd is by far not as big as when George Clooney visited but still a lot of people showed up. What a different situation though. Oscar-nominated Catherine Keener (”Being John Malkovic, “The Interpreter” etc.) gets out of the car, nobody claps, just a few shouts from the photographers. She walks over to us and while she signs autographs she says something sarcastic like this to a one girl “I bet you don’t even know who I am, but as long as I sign here it is ok for you, right? - well, that is ok for me too” .
A few minutes later oscar-nominated actor Philip Seymour Hoffman gets out of the car - no clapping again, so he doesn’t feel the need to go to the “normal” people, he just stays by the press and tv stations that interview him. A lady behind me isn’t sure whom she is watching there, “That blonde guy there, I guess he is famous, he is even nominated for an oscar. “Yeah, I think his last name is just Junior” she says in german.
Everybody walks into the building after a short while. That was it.
As I said, what a difference.
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