Ronnie Dobbs

I met John C. Reilly in Chicago. He was pretty cool and let me take a pic with him.

On the flip side my sister and I saw Dan Akroyd in New York and a guy said "Is that Dan Akroyd" in ish prompted him to run like he was Justin Timberlake or something. How lame.

A few weeks later my sister and i were at Wal-Mart looking through the $5 dvd bins and saw all these Akroyd movies "Caddy Shack 2" "Spie Like Us", "My Mother the Alien" and my sister was like I wish Dan Akroyd was here to see his career in the $5 bin.

My Other Self

Aykroyd is a really nice guy. I've never personally met him, but I've been active in the online Ghostbusters community for 10 years now, and everyone that's been fortunate enough to have an encounter said he's one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. He doesn't even get weirded out by people going up to him in total costume and proton pack replicas. The guy's a real class act.

Surprised he acted like that.

Shannon Nutt

I've met and talked (phone interviews) to a number of celebs, and it's really hard to judge what they may/may not be like, because you have to remember they're in the entertainment industry and you never know how much of an act they're putting on for you.

That being said, on the several occassions (both in person and on the phone) I've chatted with William Shatner, I've found him to be a gracious, fun person to talk to. I only bring this up because of his bad rap (primarliy among co-stars whose last name isn't "Nimoy") that he's hard to deal with.

I only met him once, so maybe he was having a bad day, but I found Adam West to be an A-one jerk. Totally full of himself on the day I met him.

GatorDeb

I lived 9 years in Miami and now have 7 years in Vegas and I have never met anyone famous

devilshalo

Patrick Stewart - Very gracious and gentlemanly. Big hands, firm handshake.. looks you right in the eye. I had to refrain from geeking out and absentmindedly calling him Capt. Picard. I did stand at attention when he walked into the room tho.

LeVar Burton - Cool guy. Very different from his Reading Rainbow persona. Loves to smoke cigars.

Jonathan Frakes - He remembered my name. That makes him uber God to me. It's not often that a peon gets recognized by name. Really friendly.

Siddig El Fadil (Alexander Siddig) - Very laid back attitude, with a good sense of humor.

Keanu Reeves - Mellow guy. Very much like his one screen persona. Quiet and unassuming. Talked to him about his band Dogstar and how his recent show went. This was pre-Matrix. Co-worker thought he was going to rob us.

Corey Feldman - Just about after his 2nd stint in rehab. Talk about surreal moments. Just chatted for a good 30 mins about all kinds of shit while he was waiting for his ride to show up. Seemed like an average guy, not a douchebag.

Tia Carrera - Total bitch. Acted like the world should be handed to her on a silver platter.

Everyone else I haven't really had an interaction with.

Bobby Shalom

Worked on features, and also did some directing...

George Wendt - one of the nicest guys.

Gabriel Byrne - Smart, funny, class act.

Lena Olin - A little stand-offish, but so beautiful, and has an amazing grace, and presence.

Paul Rudd - nice guy

Reese Witherspoon - was really mean, and bratty, granted I was a props person, and had to remove her jewelry at the end of everyday, and she was young, and I think she hated the movie we were doing.

Winona Ryder - Let's just say I don't have anything nice to say about her.

Fred Armison - He dated one of my business partners, this was way before SNL, and he was in the Chicago music group "Trenchmouth." He was pretty funny, kinda snarky, and a little self conscious.

Milli Avital - Shared a plate of fish with her, while working on a film, very cute, and charming.

movie diva

Stephen King- Very nice cool guy,
Carrie Fisher- Very nice
Erik Estrada- Asshole
Mick Jager- Very Cool
Keith Richards- Very very Cool
Chuck Berry- very nice
David Carradine- Sat and talked to him for a few minutes, nice man.
Richard Dreyfuss- he was nice, he gave me a flower
Thomas Naguchi- use to be the Coroner for Los Angeles, he was famous at the time, he was nice and took time to talk to me.
Michael Bay-little bitty asshat.

james2025a

Its good to hear that so many seem like genuinely nice people in real life. Its funny that a lot of actresses seem to be bitches. Maybe the industry does this to them....or they are simply like my ex-wife.

By the way you have to give us a cluse as to who the A list escort was......initials at least.

Keep em coming these posts are making good reading.

Ky-Fi

I met Donnie Yen---he was pretty cool. Extremely confident and enthusiastic about all aspects of filmmaking.

As far as seeing actors appearing at small film screenings and taking Q & A :

William H. Macy
Chow Yun-Fat
Sammo Hung
Chris Elliott

All these guys seemed pretty friendly and likeable.

Disney was shooting a movie in my small town a couple weeks ago, and they transformed the town to look like a town in Alaska. I went into town after to work to see the hubub, and Sandra Bullock walked by me on the sidewalk.

I didn't say anything to her, but I did do a double-take with a bit of a slack-jawed stare as a I recognized her. But did she stop, ask me if I was a local, make small talk and suggest that I take her out to a romantic local spot for an intimate dinner? NO! ---she just kept walking past me to where she was going. She is SO full of herself.

story

I've met a few but only have time to recount the most recent.

I ran into Jake Shimabukuro in the men's room right before his concert in Minneapolis a few weeks ago. He complimented me on my "The Office" t-shirt. Coolest dude ever.

My Other Self

Must've been the car crash she was in a couple of weeks ago. Must have knocked the sense right out of her! How dare she!

Ky-Fi

Nope, I can't use that for an excuse, because when I saw her it was just a couple days before her car accident.

But, even though she snubbed me , I suppose I should be fair to her. The nature of the accident (in the next town over from me) was that her SUV was hit head-on by a drunk driver crossing the median. It was at a very low speed, and there were no injuries, but the officer noted how nice Ms. Bullock was, and how she was mostly concerned about the well-being of the woman in the other car.

islandclaws

I've met quite a few, mostly horror celebs, since a friend of mine has connections up the wazoo. Too many to bothering listing, but one of the nicest was David Cronenberg. No one has been a dick to me... yet. Plus, I've also got a short list of celebs I've gotten high with.

d2cheer

Anthony Zerbe -not what you would call a "famous actor" but has done a lot of good work mostly as a villian I met him in a hotel bar in Fargo ND and spent the evening with him talking about his various films ( KISS Meets the Phantom I could spend a day on that story alone!), great guy and he picked up the tab! What more could you ask for!

Tim Allen- I was an extra in the film Joe Somebody, he was a blast! Treated everyone on the film great no matter how big or small your part was.

Jesse Ventura- not really an actor but... has been in several films. HE was a blast I don't care what anyone says about him. That guy is more interesting than anyone I have ever met.

Simon Pegg- I met him in Las Vegas at a roulette table when Shaun of the Dead was just about to be released here in the states. I had actually seen the film before it came out here so we talked a bit about "how" I had already seen it etc... I found him to be a great guy and he treated me and my wife very well, we actually spent a lot of time with him and I will just say that what happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas...

riotinmyskull

so you had a threesome with simon pegg and your wife?

cungar

I met Christopher Guest at LAX in 1986. I told him how much I loved Spinal Tap and he just kind of shrugged. I think he was sick of people bugging his wife Jamie Lee Curtis at the airport and didn't want to be bugged.

riley_dude

I hit a lot of Conventions so....

Grace Lee Whitney-Very bitchy
Michael Dorn-An ass
Kate Mulgrew-A real joy to meet
Amber Benson-Really cool
Adam Baldwin-jerk
Virginia Hey-Very nice

Arpeggi

Not an actor but Joss Whedon was a total douche and seemed retarded.

SPiRAL

Bill Cosby - Super nice dude
Sidney Poitier - Had lunch with him, very charismatic
Dennis Quaid - Ass
Sean Connery - Very gentelmanly
Kevin Smith - everyone's met him, real nice dude
Robert Rodriguez - he was ok
Quentin Tarantino - same
Carla Gugino - very sweet woman
Meg Ryan - she was drunk
Steve Coogan - seemed happy that some one recognized him
Andy Dick - walking down the hallway together and peed at the urinal next to me, weird guy
Peter Dante - Same as he is in Sandler's movies, regular guy. Peed nextto me as well.
Ben Stiller - Nice guy
John C. Reilly - cool dude, very friendly ran into him twice
Paul F. Thomkins - chill, he ate some of my popcorn
Vin Diesel - he was ok
Jerry O'Connell - cool, normal dude
Linda Cardellini - very nice, very short
Jason Segel - regular dude
Seth Rogen - same
Nick Swardson - very chill, i think he was high


Last but not least - James Duval - he was BY FAR the coolest celeb I've ever met. We hung out for a while one night at an event, kept running into each other , even ended up sitting next to eachother at the formal part of the evening. I saw him a few months later out, and he remembered me by name, I thought that was pretty dope of him.

Boba Fett

Benicio Del Toro- nice, but strange
Bruce Campbell- sarcastic as expected

A relative of mine met Paul Newman and like every other story I've heard of people meeting him, he was super nice and friendly.

A friend of mine though, met Clint Eastwood at a car show in California and said it was awesome because they chatted for a bit about the cars. He said the only bad thing was he was just like a regular guy and it killed a lot of the mystique he had.

jpb07

Well to my surprise Jose Canseco was actually a pretty cool guy...at least circa 1992. Robin Yount was a slight douchebag...go figure. One of my wife's former co-workers used to go with her family to spend time with family friend Cal Ripken Jr...and said he was just a plain Joe. Charles Barkley was seemed nice despite seeing him in Milwaukee. 15 years later I'm still pissed about the Hyatt staff forcing me out of the hotel while in a crowd to get his autograph despite being a registered guest. Going to the bottom of the barrel....the worse guy I ever met was a RP for the Brewers by the name of Chuck Crim. The guy acted like he was the Babe Ruth of baseball when in reality he was an average middle reliever.

Entertainment wise... Ted Nugent was awesome. My first time meeting him was when I tagged along with my dad for an interview with him. After walking into his hotel room and being shocked to see a loaded pistol right by his bed, he was really nice and explained to my still slightly naive self why it was there. At the end he ordered room service and ordered me a Coke which I thought was pretty cool. Met him a few other times and remembered me every time. I found out a bit later that his oldest son was around my age so that may have been part of why he was so nice.

GreenVulture

Ah, so we finally get an explanation for Arpeggi's obsession with pointing out how much Firefly/Serenity sucks whenever he can.

And people, you don't drop bombs like this...
and then leave us hanging. Either name names or don't bring it up at all.

d2cheer

About the "A" list escort, if there was one someone would have dug that up by now...and it would have been all over places like TMZ.

james2025a

I talked with a friend about this thread yesterday and he recounted a story about a time a number of years ago when he was working at a famous Golf course in Scotland. He was in the lobby of the place and helping Sean Connery with his luggage. A middle aged woman recognizes Sean and goes up to him and says "Your Sean Connery." to which he says "I certainly am.....now Fuck Off!!!" My mate said that he found it really hilarious and it sounds exactly like something i would expect of Mr. Connery.

james2025a

The same mate also said that Sylvester Stallone was at the golf course at one point. One of the days he was about to play golf on his own and he asked one of the caddies if he fancied a round of golf with him. Apparently the caddy said that he was the coolest most friendliest of guys. How cool would that be.