"Last week, I saw a clip that made me want to stand up and cheer. It was of the actor Millie Bobby Brown talking back to a photographer on a red carpet. The paparazzi had been yelling at her to smile, and Brown retorted: Smile? You smile, before walking off. She refused to do what was expected of her. It's a similar story with the star of the recent TV series Alien: Earth, Sydney Chandler."
"The actor did not appear on the cover of Variety magazine alongside the show's creator and one of her co-stars, after she said she didn't want to take part in a video interview for a regular series called How Well Do They Know Each Other?. The interviewer spent the first half of the resulting cover story explaining the situation in a bemused, tut-tutting tone, noting all the stars who had been willing to take part in the franchise."
Millie Bobby Brown refused a paparazzo's demand to smile and walked off the red carpet. Sydney Chandler declined to participate in a planned Variety cover video interview, citing privacy and uncertainty about how much personal life to share. Publicity negotiations and magazine coverage documented star participation and frustration when an actor withdrew. Publicity expectations for famous performers include contractual obligations and unwritten cultural rules; some are enforceable and others are subjective. Younger actors increasingly refuse invasive promotional requests. Photographers and interviewers can act insensitively, treating talent as objects and prompting talent to assert boundaries.
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