Being asked for selfies all the time as a celebrity must be exhausting - and it isn’t always convenient. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing - people, who, in most cases, mean well, feel entitled to get a photo with you. It’s no wonder that some celebrities have banned them. Emilia Clarke has recently revealed that she has also banned them, after one fan asked for one while she was having a panic attack.
‘I was genuinely walking through an airport and I suddenly started having what I can only believe to be a panic attack brought on by complete exhaustion,’ the Game of Thrones actress said on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast. ‘I was on my own, I was on the phone to my mum saying, “I feel like I can’t breathe, I don’t know what’s going on”. ‘I’m there and the tears are coming out. I’m crying and crying, this guy’s like, “Can I get a selfie?” And I was like, “I can’t breathe, I’m really sorry. Just having a minute”. It was after a few moments like that where I was like, “I don’t know how to do this”.’
Instead, she now says she offers to sign things, saying that it turns into a nicer experience for both her and the fans. ‘So I started to say, I’m not going to take a photo but I will sign something,’ she continued. ‘When you do that you have to have an interaction with that person, as opposed to someone just going, "Oi, give us a selfie, goodbye". It turns into, “Right, what’s your name? Who am I making it out to?”‘Then you have a chat and you’re actually having a truthful human-to-human thing, as opposed to it being this other thing that probably isn’t nice for them and isn’t that nice for you.’
Honestly, fair enough.
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