xhonzi said:
Anytime I learn more about a celeb's personal life, I usually find that I wish I hadn't.
That's how I am. I quit worrying about the real person a long time ago and I sometimes go out of my way to make sure I don't learn anything about them. I don't want the character ruined, so I stay clear of the real person. There are only two or three actors who I bother reading interviews with and it's only because I inadvertently found out they weren't self-absorbed assholes. It doesn't take much for me either, one bad interview and you can get a sense of who they really are.
I have two friends who are close to the business - one is in it actively and the other was for many years. The stories I hear about what uber-headaches the actors are behind the scenes - disappointing, to say the least.
I don't know when I started to realize I didn't want to know the reality of the actors, but it's been quite a while. Fisher was certainly one of the earliest let downs. Man, what a fucking train wreck. What a waste of talent and intelligence.