In his reporter's notebook, AaronCouch recalls what it was like waiting for Vin Diesel at the Bloodshot junket
Industrious Sony Pictures publicists are already putting out fires as I get to the London Hotel in West Hollywood on March 6, about 45 minutes early for a 5:20 p.m. interview with Vin Diesel. The studio is holding a junket for Diesel’s latest movie,Guardians of the GalaxyPress junkets, which I’ve attended off and on for nearly a decade, are never well-oiled machines.
No big deal. Junkets are also great places to kill time, so I leave the hotel and spend an hour at Book Soup, where I buy a copy of, about how Silicon Valley is transforming capitalism into something sinister and destroying democracy. I'm going over my game plan for Diesel while walking back to the hotel. From hours of podcasts and videos, I know he's a tough interview — he can run out the clock without saying anything of substance.
to share about helping make blockbusters more diverse years before inclusion was a broad mandate in Hollywood. Tonight is a junket, so I only have 15 minutes, but hopefully I’ll getAt 6:30 p.m. I'm back in the hotel suite. There are two suites set up, one for the journalists, the other an HQ for Sony. I pop my head into Sony HQ and folks are talking about something I don't quite catch — about moving something around in the schedule. I check out the journalists suite.
I grab my book and take a seat in the hallway, where things are more interesting. Diesel's publicist and team are concerned. Interviews are running behind, and they seem worried about how long they can keep the actor's attention. The lead publicist holds a piece of paper with a list of all the interviews they have committed Diesel to. The publicist doesn't want to cut anyone who is here in person, but cuts must be made, because dear God they need to get out of there by 8:30.
"He sucks on the phone," says the publicist, recommending they dump all the phone interviews scheduled for the evening. (I’ll pause here to note that I never publish off-the-record comments, but overheard remarks are fair game for
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