I was at the store today getting groceries and at the check out of course you can't help but notice the seemingly hundreds of bullshit tabloids all over the place. Ridiculous headlines, completely false stories, invasions of privacy, etc. etc. So many people are so concerned with the lives of people that they don't (and likely never will) know. Not to say that it's outrageous for a person to care about the general well-being and whatnot of someone they don't know, but what makes people think that it's their right to know about personal details of anyone else? If there are some who choose to share things with others that's their choice, but it's still not anyone's right to have that information.
I've been in and around multiple fanbases in my life and I've seen a lot of things... The thing that I don't think people realize is that, even if you are "positively" supporting (in most cases) a celebrity, but you are concerned with their every move, thought, job, relationship, in a lot of ways you are just as bad as those who are "against" them for whatever reason. Just because you don't diss them or hate on them or whatever the hell the case is, that doesn't mean that your actions are warranted or acceptable. Celebrities that have problems with being followed every second of every day and the other things that A-Listers go through; do you think that they are any happier about one of their fans digging into their personal life rather than someone who dislikes or doesn't care about them? In fact in some ways, people who are NOT fans of theirs probably "bother" them less because more than likely they're less concerned and less involved in their lives than their fans are. I'm just saying that I don't think people think about the fact that butting into someone else's life, whether it's for good intentions or bad, is not okay.
I was thinking about like Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and many others... What a fine line they must have to walk. In their profession, their job is essentially to make people believe that they are these characters. As I am not an actor these are only my assumptions, but I would think as an actor you want people to care about the relationship between the characters, you want them to be invested in it, you want them to cry when they break up and be elated when they finally work things out. And then they have real life relationships and people are so focused on it because they are invested in the relationship because they still see it as the two people they're "rooting" for in the movie, to an extent the relationship overlaps.
I don't know if I'm making any sense. I was just thinking that it must be really tough... Wanting to make people care but also wanting them not to care. Obviously the characters that they portray are completely different than who they are and their real life relationship, but I think more often than not that distinction gets lost, and I think that's a lot of what causes the scrutiny and obsession with their real life private lives.
I'm not saying that it's wrong to support celebrities, I'm saying that regardless of their career and whether or not it "comes with the territory" - no one has any right to information about someone else's life. And that people need to realize that positive attention doesn't necessarily mean it's any better than negative attention... It may still be none of your business.
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