The (Humorous) Guide to Celebrity Distances

Mirrored from Contents May Vary.

{Header image by Bruno Glätsch, used courtesy of Pixabay, under a Creative Commons license.}

Author’s Note: this is a piece of humor, and not intended as an actual guide for how to interact with the celebrities you admire.

Like many things currently in my life, I blame Martin Freeman for the creation of this guide. It was 2014: I was lucky enough to be in London on an internship, during the time he played the title character in Trafalgar Transformed’s Richard III. They had on-stage seating, which I, of course, had to do (if only because I can now say I shared a stage with the man). As he stormed past during his first entrance, my lizard brain piped up: “I could tackle him!”

As I interacted with more celebrities in my time in Los Angeles, I began to jokingly refer to how close I was in that same vein. 

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