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Why Movie Stars Need To Stop Saying They’re Not Celebrities
They say “you’re nobody till somebody loves you,” and many of us take that to heart in more ways than one. The stakes are even higher when you factor in the mechanisms of our discontent that line up all the instruments — utilized to judge how many hearts we are able to collect from shifty strangers.
Shit has gotten so real that we can’t even get jobs without convincing potential employers that we are lovable enough to command legions of followers. And if those numbers don’t resonate we may have to give up opportunities to candidates who are mini-celebrities.
In the spirit of this fame-fueled climate, we have to give props to the regular folks who hustle hard for the benefits that come up with overnight Insta-worthy success.
We also have to call out the haters who despite the immensely substantial roles they’ve played in the circus of celebritydom — still feel they need to publicly alienate the very machine that churned them out in bedazzled bits.
This brings us to Aussie actress and global superstar, Nicole Kidman, who has a roster of projects on the horizon, and expectedly, she’s making the rounds during the glitzy promotional tour.
While speaking to Allure magazine, the fifty-one-year-old wife of Country crooner Keith Urban, and mother of…