Bronson Pinchot - AV CLUB interview - MEOW!

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/20/09 at 10:55pm

This has been getting a ton of hits, and since he was fabulous in PUTTING IT TOGETHER I figured I would post this here.

Bronson is VERY candid in this recent interview... and has many choice words for Bette Midler and Denzel Washington!

"Bette Midler was such a b*tch..." etc.

"Denzel Washington cured me forever of thinking that there is any amount of money or anything that could ever, ever make it okay to be abused."


MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW!

[mallardo]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 11:37am

Great interview! Thanks for posting it. Love the Mischa Barton moment... "If you talk about my ass it'll make me cry!"

[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 6:17pm

Bronson is a jerk. You have to wonder why his career has not gone anywhere. No one really wants to work with him. I met him years ago. He is a very difficult and high maintenance person.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 6:25pm

He actually is a good friend of my family and has come to a number of gatherings and such... he is a honest, brilliant man, but does NOT suffer fools gladly...

... and since LaLaLand is mostly fools, that is why he is where he is...

... frankly, he is better at interior design/renovation than he even is as an actor, so he has spent a lot of time doing that and has been very successful.

He owns one of the oldest homes in the northeast about 20 miles from me, across the border in PA.

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[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 6:28pm

Well good for him. You can see him whichever way you like. I found him to be a nasty arrogant man. Glad he has found his calling as a decorator. Here in La La land he is a has been.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 6:35pm

DAME, not to diminish your argument, but...

... in LaLaLand even Lauren Bacall is a has-been. That term means NOTHING in this day and age of "reality celebrities".

Here yesterday, gone today, back again tomorrow. That's the biz.

But I can totally understand why one would have a certain dislike for him, particularly because of his aloof (perhaps, read: arrogant) demeanor.

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[DAME]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 6:38pm

Lauren Bacall is a legend. And save the reality celebrity conversation for a episode of The View. He is not aloof. He is arrogant. There is a difference.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 6:42pm

Yes, but Lauren Bacall is a legend AND a has-been (particularly by your logic). There is a difference.

I'm not defending him, btw, but I am curious what he has personally done to you to cause you to find him so distasteful and arrogant? You are not alone in your horror stories!

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[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 10/22/09 at 8:52am

Bronson Pinchot came across as a conceited tool at the stage door of Putting it Together. When he was on The Surreal World, the cast could not stand him, his arrogance stuck out that much.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/22/09 at 10:05am

He certainly doesn't interview well. He replies were pretty scattered and apparently, every period of his career was somehow a "bad period". It sounds like he basically feeds off negativity.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 10/22/09 at 8:55pm

I found it very refreshing to read an interview with an actor where they weren't full of PR bulls*t, talking about how wonderful and inspiring everyone around them is. BUT...it takes a lot of balls to say bad things about people in print, and as much as I enjoyed the read, if this is how he is in INTERVIEWS then I wouldn't be surprised if in real life he really is, as Dame put it, an arrogant, nasty man.

Speaking of the Putting It Together stage door, I will never forget that very short but strange experience. I was a huge Perfect Strangers fan as a kid and I was so excited to meet him. When he came out, he quickly walked right past everybody and looked for a taxi. Being a brash teenager who was not going to let my moment with Balki slip away, I ran up to him before he could escape, told him how much I had loved him on the show and got him to sign my Playbill. I had always assumed it must have been because he is very shy in real life, but after reading this interview, I can see that that was not the case!

[superbu]

Posted: 10/19/17 at 7:57pm

Ran across this old thread.  I know people who were working on the Disney lot when Bette had her contract there in the '80s.  She was not well-liked.  A guy I know who worked in the mail room was delivering mail to her receptionist and Bette walked out and snapped, "Who are you?  How did you get in here?"  She explained that he was from the mail room and was delivering her mail, and she just scoffed and went back in her office.  That same employee was on the elevator when it stopped on a floor, the door opened, and Bette was waiting to board.  She saw him, looked away and wouldn't board, just waited for the next elevator.  (Tim Allen is another one who worked on the Disney lot that was not well liked.  Goldie Hawn was liked around there... a friend tells me she was "just like you'd think Goldie Hawn would be".)

Bronson Pinchot... yeah, I saw him in the early 2000s at Trader Joe's in Toluca Lake, where he was shopping.  I came around the corner and saw him with a cart.  I was looking at him, thinking, "Is that..."  He saw me looking at him and positively glared at me, like he was thinking, "What are YOU looking at? Don't talk to me."  So I averted my eyes and didn't speak to him.  Very unfriendly vibe I got from him.

Updated On: 10/19/17 at 07:57 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 10/19/17 at 8:25pm

Ouch!  I act that way regularly.  No wonder people say I’m a condescending arrogant prick.  Definitely an eye-opener.