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Interviews are part of the job for both celebrities and journalists alike. A lot of times, both parties go in knowing what to expect, what you can talk about, and what you can't.
Some will tell you the mark of a good journalist is one who knows when to push to get that extra detail or two.
It's a slippery slope, however, because if you push too far, you risk blowing the whole interview, a feeling the interviewers in these blown efforts are clearly familiar with.
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1. This Good Day Sacramento host peeved Cara Delevingne off by telling her she needs a nap.
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2. The full-body cringe that is this reporter mistaking Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne.
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3. Selena Gomez refused to answer a reporter who asked her to explain ex Justin Bieber's gross behavior at the time, after the two had split.
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4. She was no stranger to weird questions about her exes sadly, as seen by her reaction when she was asked how "gay" ex Nick Jonas is in another sit-down.
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5. Tom Hardy didn't take kindly to a reporter from an LGBTQ outlet asking about his "ambiguous" sexuality.
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6. Dakota Johnson and Melanie Griffith getting into an argument mid-interview on live TV...on the Oscars red carpet nonetheless, over 50 Shades of Grey. What a time.
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7. And who can forget the moment she effortlessly put Ellen DeGeneres in her place on her own show?
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8. Ellen wasn't too kind to Taylor Swift in this 2013 chat when her dating history came up.
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9. A Russian reporter tried to corner Mila Kunis into dissing her Friends with Benefits costar Justin Timberlake, and she wasn't having it.
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10. Robert Downey Jr. walked out of an interview after an out-of-pocket question about his family and their shared history of substance abuse.
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11. Draya Michele wasn't cool with Wendy Williams's line of questioning about her dating history, which really aimed to shame her.
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12. Jesse Eisenberg's whole 2014 sit-down here was...bizarre. He calls the interviewer the Carrot Top of interviewers.
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13. Quentin Tarantino engaged in a heated back and forth with Krishnan Guru-Murthy while promoting Django Unchained where he was clearly unprepared to be challenged about the film's themes.
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14. This wildly inappropriate question was leveled at One Direction right after asking them when they'd go from "boy band" to "man band." ... Yikes.
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15. Jay Leno using Kanye West's dead mom to shame him over the Taylor Swift VMAs incident.
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16. Similarly, when Dylan McDermott was uncomfortably questioned about his mother's death.
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17. Diane Sawyer came at Britney Spears so hard in this interview — while she was already in tears — about her responsibility to her fans' parents, her breakup with Justin, and more, a true hot mess.
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18. Anne Hathaway shut down Matt Lauer's weird comments about her leaked nudes.
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19. Matt Lauer also couldn't stop talking to Sandra Bullock about her nude scene in a film, which she point blank let him know was gross.
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20. Even Oprah Winfrey has gotten it wrong, like when she asked teenage Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen about their weight and clothing sizes amidst rumors about their bodies and relationships with food.
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What other times have you seen celebrity interviews go terribly wrong? Who handled it well, and who handled it terribly? Let's hear it in the comments.
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