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Author John Green Defends Cara Delevingne After Terribly Awkward TV Interview

She doesn’t “exist to feed your narrative,” Green lashes out

Jul 31, 2015 09:44 GMT  ·  By
Cara Delevingne promotes “Paper Towns,” is deemed annoying by TV anchors
   Cara Delevingne promotes “Paper Towns,” is deemed annoying by TV anchors

A couple of days ago, model turned actress Cara Delevingne did an interview with Good Day Sacramento via satellite transmission, to promote her big screen debut as a leading lady in “Paper Towns,” based on the best-selling novel by the same name by John Green.

As you can see in the video below, the interview didn’t go well. The 3 anchors got off on the wrong foot by referring to Cara as “Carla” and she kept on using sarcasm in every one of her replies. The direct consequence of that was that they deemed her too “sleepy” and not properly excited about the film, so they cut her off and sent her to bed. Literally so.

Cara and her dry, British sense of humor  

The tweets below are from Cara’s official feed. As you can see, she attributes the anchors’ initial surprise to their not understanding her dry, British sense of humor, which heavily relies on sarcasm.

She makes no apologies for her behavior and she insists that she’s very grateful for the chance she’s been given, of having a shot at following her acting dreams, so this wasn’t a case of her not fulfilling her contractual obligations to promote the film.

It seems that this is all she’ll say on the topic, because that pretty much has covered all the criticism directed at her in the past couple of days.

John Green steps in, fiercely defends Cara

However, author John Green has more to say on the topic, using Cara’s nasty TV experience to highlight the dehumanization that occurs during these press junkets.

In a long post on Medium, Green argues that, only because actors are contractually bound to do the media rounds, that doesn’t mean representatives of the media are entitled to try and turn them into their dancing monkeys.

“The whole process of commodifying personhood to sell movie tickets is inherently dehumanizing,” he writes, adding that actors are forced to part with “a part” of their selves in exchange for the movie’s name to be featured on a show.

This is a practice all industry players are already accustomed to, he writes - except for himself, because he’s new at it and is still struggling to adjust.

In time, said practice had led to the appearance of repetitive, dumb questions, which are met with equally repetitive answers, which may even come to lose all meaning.

“Cara, however, refuses to stick to the script,” he says. “She refuses to indulge lazy questions and refuses to turn herself into an automaton to get through long days of junketry. I don’t find that behavior entitled or haughty. I find it admirable. Cara Delevingne doesn’t exist to feed your narrative or your news feed - and that’s precisely why she’s so [expletive]-ing interesting.”

So, do you think Cara is being “interesting” in the exchange below, or also slightly unprofessional? Drop us a line in the comments.