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While You Were Offline: The Avengers Disassemble in Press Junket Hell

• Wired.Com

Have you ever thought about what it means to be a celebrity? Like, really thought about it? If there's been a running theme to this week's stories, it is that—just maybe—being a celebrity is fairly weird and leads you to have a skewed view on what you can say or do at any given moment (as well as what people think they can say or do in front of you). Oh, and a superhero came out of the closet because his telepathic friend told him he's gay and Amy Schumer failed to impress Kanye West and Kim Kardashian with her antics. Yeah, it's been that kind of a week. Here's what you might have missed over the last seven days in the online wilderness.

In Which Iron Man Walks Out of an Interview

What Happened: In the middle of an interview promoting Avengers: Age of Ultron in the UK, Robert Downey Jr. got asked about his past. So he got up and left.
Where It Blew Up: Twitter, blogs, media think pieces
What Really Happened: The press junket interview is a strange thing; celebrities sit in a room while numerous interviewers come in, ask roughly the same questions for a limited time (around 10 minutes, say), and then leave to be replaced by another interviewer who'll ask the same questions. Celebrities often comment on the surrealities of the process, saying that they love it when someone comes in and asks something that they don't expect. Turns out, that's not always the case.


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