When Meeting Celebrities Goes Amazingly... Or Disastrously

Montgomery 6 month s ago

I've met and hung out with a lot of celebrities through the years. But the weirdest was in Autumn of '92 in Amherst, MA when I was in my early 20's. I've only been awake for about 15 minutes one morning and I had to go to work, which was at a bike shop about 200 yards from my house in the center of Amherst. I was walking still bleary-eyed from sleep through the alley I always use, when I look up and a long Kraft's Services table and no body around except for Nicole Kidman in a chair eating an apple. I looked at her with my eyes squinted because I couldn't really believe what I was looking at, and she looked back at me with the same look. I walked past her as we're still staring at each other and then I ended up walking onto the set next to the director in a chair. Bill Pullman and Alec Baldwin are sitting at a small table outside of Bonducci's Cafe about 10 feet from me. All of a sudden this large woman with headphones comes up and says, "Are you in this scene?" I'm like, "Umm...no." She say's, "Do you wanna?" I'm like, "Okay." She stuffs her hand in her coat and hands me a wad of bills. "I need you to just walk past those actors like a regular pedestrian when the Director says 'action'." I did the scene three times, and she said "Thank you, that's all."

They ended up not using the scene. But it was an unexpected fun little adventure. When I later counted the wad of bills, it was $376.00.

By the way...The movie was called, "Malice."

"Worst: I was walking Venice Beach during spring break with my friend..and I see a hat vendor shop and me being addicted to hats goes into the shop for about 5 minutes while my friend Rosa stopped to talk to some girl and take a picture. I walked out found her and said "Alright I'm done let's go eat" and she gives me this stare..like "are you kidding me" Me being oblivious just went back to the hat vendor to look some more.. Come to find out she had ran into **Emma F*****g Watson.** I mean this girl is the background of my phone and I've always wanted to meet her and get a picture with her. When she told me that I felt like crying for a week.Best: Spring break the next year. We were looking for a parking spot on Hollywood Blvd and parked in $10 lot behind a store..A friend and I were pissed that we had to pay $10 for parking and would have to walk for about 10 minutes to get to the blvd. As we get out of our cars complaining. **Ryan Gosling** walks past us, and we go speechless. He chuckled and said to us "Hey guys what's up" I was starstruck and Aaron (my friend) just says, "Nada, paying for parking is a b***h in California". Ryan ask where we're from, tell him we're from Texas. He says that was cool then paid for our parking for the whole dayEdit: Oh, I also met Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long when I lived in Germany. Dad pulled me out of school to go see them.Tl;Dr: Ryan Gosling paid for my parking and I'm an idiot for not recognizing Emma Watson b/c of my obsession over fitted hats."

"Isaak Asimov had a big crush on my mother - I saw him all the time at her Mensa events. I remember him as the cool, funny looking old guy with the great stories."

"Met Bruce Campbell at a film festival and he invited my friends and I to join him for dinner. Really great down to earth guy."

When Meeting Celebrities Goes Amazingly... Or Disastrously

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Montgomery 6 month s ago